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

• With these inauspicious circumstances, it is no surprise the IMF is rapidly burying its multilateral consultations on global imbalances.
  由于这些不利的环境，难怪国际货币基金组织迅速结束了关于全球失衡问题的多边磋商。
• Ancient Chinese people thought that dreams can imply auspicious and inauspicious things.
  古人认为梦可以预示吉兆和恶运。
• The signs are inauspicious.
  种种迹象并不令人乐观。
• 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。
• From these inauspicious beginnings, the world of software development has given rise to numerous other myths.
  从这种误解开始，软件开发领域产生了很多荒谬的言论。
• 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 typical answers were inauspicious.
  我看到的答案一般是负面的。
• 9/ 11 ( 2001) another inauspicious start to the decade.
  9•11（2001）本十年又一不祥开端。
• This procedure is very inauspicious, usually we manage it to be called "the accident".
  这种做法是很不吉利的，通常我们管它叫“三长两短”。
• 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。