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

双语例句

• In a crisis-prone world, there is a gathering sense of foreboding over China.
  在一个危机四伏的世界，人们对中国有一种不祥的预感，这种预感正变得越来越强烈。
• An omen or foreboding, especially of evil.
  预示，预兆，凶兆预兆或凶兆，尤指不幸的。
• Something dark and foreboding will suit my mood well today.
  黑暗和不祥之兆的东西很符合我今天的心情。
• Belinda's attendant spirits have an uneasy foreboding of catastrophe.
  伺候贝琳达的精灵们不安地预感到灾难即将来临。
• There's a sense of foreboding in the capital as if fighting might at any minute break out.
  在首都似乎有一种预感，战争任何时候都可能打起来。
• Now, more and more frequently, a certain foreboding overcomes me.
  现在，某种预感越来越频繁地涌上我的心头。
• Actually, Yates does not delve into dark places; Potter's world is one of grey foreboding.
  事实上，叶特斯并没有钻研黑暗的领域；波特的世界笼罩在灰色的预感之中。
• The father of four, he was overcome with foreboding for Laura.
  他很纳闷。作为四个孩子的父亲，警长预感劳娜已遭不幸，深感不安。
• The sailor's wife had a foreboding that he would not return.
  那海员的妻子预感到他将一去不复返。
• Foreboding mingled with his excitement.
  他在兴奋的同时又夹杂着一种不祥的预感。