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

• All along the way people make great efforts to avoid any inauspicious influence.
  一路上人们都会竭力避免不好的影响。
• 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。
• Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
  按照路德②在教会中那些敌人的谣言，他本人就是那种恶魔的孽种；而在新英格兰的请教徒中闯，有这种可疑血缘的，可不仅仅珠儿一个孩子。
• The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
  真的，它确实很象，但却是一种呆滞死板，暮气沉沉，毫无情感的相似。
• The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious.
  中国人送礼物时很强调双数，因为单数被认为不吉利。
• 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。
• FORLORN shop facing a dusty car park in one of the poorest parts of Phoenix, Arizona, is an inauspicious place to start a closely watched experiment in global retailing.
  在亚利桑那州凤凰城最穷的一个地方，有一个尘土遍地的停车场，对面就是一个孤零零的商店。在这样一个全球零售业密切关注的国家把店开到这里肯定不是上上选。
• 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。
• For China's estimated 130m migrant workers, this inauspicious start to the Year of the Ox is only likely to get worse.
  对于中国约1.3亿农民工而言，牛年开头就不吉利，而情况可能只会变得更糟。