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ominous
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1. ADJ-GRADED 不祥的；恶兆的；不吉利的 If you describe something as ominous, you mean that it worries you because it makes you think that something unpleasant is going to happen. 

  • There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone...

    电话那头出现了不祥的沉默。

  • The rolls of distant thunder were growing more ominous.

    远处隆隆的雷声听着愈发惊心，要变天了。

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  • The bar seemed ominously quiet...

    酒吧里非常安静，给人一种不祥的预感。

  • Ominously, car sales slumped in August...

    8月份的汽车销量暴跌，这可不是个好兆头。

  • He spoke ominously of the world facing 'a war in Europe and possibly something greater'.

    他作出不祥的预言，说世界将面临“一场发生在欧洲、甚至可能更大范围的战争”。

Adjective

1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

  • "a baleful look"
  • "forbidding thunderclouds"
  • "his tone became menacing"
  • "ominous rumblings of discontent"
  • "sinister storm clouds"
  • "a sinister smile"
  • "his threatening behavior"
  • "ugly black clouds"
  • "the situation became ugly"

2. presaging ill-fortune;

  • "ill omens"
  • "ill predictions"
  • "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley
  • "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
  • "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
1. There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.
有一个普遍的证据可以说明这种不吉利的事实归咎于城市拥挤生活中的固有的生态缺陷。

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2. Those black clouds look ominous for our picnic.
那些乌云对我们的野餐来说是个不祥之兆。

来自《简明英汉词典》