betokening

英 [bɪˈtəʊkənɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈtoʊkənɪŋ]

v.  预示; 表示
betoken的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预示；显示
  If somethingbetokenssomething else, it is a sign of this thing.
  1. The president alone betokened the national identity.
     总统本身代表着一个国家的形象。

双语例句

• And just then came the loud scream below-stairs, betokening fear or dire extremity.
  就在此时楼下传来了那声预示着万分惊恐的尖叫。
• The belief was a favorite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness.
  我们的先祖笃信这类事情倒是好事，因为这说明，他们的新生的共和国，是在天意的格外垂青和严格监视之下的。
• The latter poetic works, by way of chanting the bidding farewell, pining for one's love, and short duration of life, reflect the poets 'tragic consciousness of life, betokening the setting in of the spirit of the Wei-Jin age.
  这些作品通过对离别相思、生命短促的的咏叹，体现了诗人的生命悲剧意识，预示了魏晋时代精神的到来。
• It often occurs in a key moment of psychological change, betokening the coming of a climax of the story, and deepening the thematic meaning.
  顿悟常常发生在任何心理变化的关键时刻，预示着故事的高潮，起着深化主题的作用。