inauspicious

英 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

美 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

adj.  预示前景黯淡的; 不祥的; 不吉利的

BNC.32994 / COCA.27562

牛津词典

adj.

• 预示前景黯淡的；不祥的；不吉利的
  showing signs that the future will not be good or successful
  1. an inauspicious start
     不吉利的开头

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不祥的;凶兆的;不吉利的
  Aninauspiciousevent is one that gives signs that success is unlikely.
  1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
     他迟到了,会议一开始就不顺利。

双语例句

• The signs are inauspicious.
  种种迹象并不令人乐观。
• With these inauspicious circumstances, it is no surprise the IMF is rapidly burying its multilateral consultations on global imbalances.
  由于这些不利的环境，难怪国际货币基金组织迅速结束了关于全球失衡问题的多边磋商。
• It mainly includes two parts: auspicious& inauspicious signs from heaven.
  它主要包括天显祥瑞和天降灾异两个方面。
• Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious. Conclusion ( 1) There is an association early awakening with psychomotor retardation in patients with depression.
  悲剧性的以不幸结束的或有可能以不幸结束的；不祥的结论（）郁症的早醒可能与精神运动性阻滞相关联。
• Clearly, most investors have not seen higher commodity prices as inauspicious, merely as a symptom of robust global demand.
  很明显，大多数的投资者并没有将商品的高价看作凶兆，而只是作为大量全球需求的象征。
• The open desolation at the foot of the walls and their towering height filled him with foreboding as he went, so much so that he even skirted crows scavenging on the rubbish heaps for fear of startling them into inauspicious cawing.
  城根的空旷，与城墙的高峻，教他越走越怕。偶尔看见垃圾堆上有几个老鸦，他都想绕着走开，恐怕惊起它们，给他几声不祥的啼叫。
• Since their inauspicious beginnings, all four of these units have embarked on a path that has taken them far from their original mandate of debt resolution units to becoming quasi-boutique investment banks.
  从不吉利的起点出发后，四家资产管理公司所走的道路全都远远偏离了处置不良债务的初衷，而摇身变成了准精品投资银行。
• It is inauspicious to walk under a ladder.
  从梯子下走过是不吉利的。
• Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
  既然我们要讲述的故事要从这一不样的门口开篇，而恰恰在门限处一眼便可望见这丛野玫瑰，我们怎能不摘下一朵玫瑰花，将其呈献给读者呢！
• The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious. So, dual Euler method is better than quaternion method in the solution of the singularity of the Euler equation.
  中国人一般讲究礼品成双，因为奇数被视为不吉利。因此，对于解决欧拉方程奇异性来讲，双欧法要优于四元数法。