foreboding

英 [fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ]

美 [fɔːrˈboʊdɪŋ]

n.  (对不祥或危险事情的)强烈预感
v.  预示；预感；预兆
forebode的现在分词
adj.  <文>（对不祥之事）预感的，预知的

复数：forebodings　

TEM8

BNC.15724 / COCA.16427

牛津词典

noun

• （对不祥或危险事情的）强烈预感
  a strong feeling that sth unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen
  1. She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad.
     她预感到这会是坏消息。
  2. He knew from her face that his forebodings had been justified.
     他从她的脸上看出，自己不祥的预感是正确的。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (不祥的)预兆，预感
  Forebodingis a strong feeling that something terrible is going to happen.
  1. His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
     他的胜利因为一种令人不安的不祥预感蒙上了阴影。
• ADJ-GRADED 给人不祥预感的
  If you describe something asforeboding, you mean that it makes you feel that something terrible is going to happen.
  1. Prisons like Strangeways, built more than 100 years ago, were intended to look grim and foreboding places.
     诸如斯特兰奇韦斯监狱之类建于 100 多年前的监狱故意营造出一种阴森、不祥的气氛。

英英释义

noun

• an unfavorable omen
• a feeling of evil to come
  1. a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
  2. the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
  Synonym:premonitionpresentimentboding

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