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An augury is a sign of what may happen later — an . Dark clouds can be an augury of rain; a strong first week of sales can be an augury of a good year. The word can also mean the old practice of reading such signs, the art the Roman used. It is a , slightly old-fashioned word. In everyday English people say sign, , or “it looks like.” You will meet it in news commentary and in stories that want a serious or ancient flavour.
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組成From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium. The ending turns the priest or the act into the sign, or into the practice of reading signs.
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- augurthe person or the verb this noun comes from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
augurynoun/ˈɔː.ɡjʊ.ɹi/
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A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
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An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
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An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
- Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。