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A foreboding is a strong, heavy feeling that something bad is coming soon — even if you cannot prove it yet. It sits in the stomach more than in the head.
A foreboding is a strong, heavy feelingforeboding是一種強烈、沉重的感覺 that something bad is coming soon覺得有壞事快要發生了 — even if you cannot prove it yet——即使你還沒辦法證明. It sits in the stomach more than in the head這種感覺比較是在胃裡,不是在腦子裡.
People say a sense of foreboding or a foreboding that….
People say人們會說 a sense of foreboding a sense of foreboding(一種不祥的預感) or a foreboding that…或foreboding that…(有種預感覺得……).
It is not a careful prediction from numbers, like a weather forecast; it is a mood.
It is not a careful prediction from numbers它不是根據數字做出的謹慎預測, like a weather forecast不像天氣預報那樣; it is a mood它是一種心情.
The same word can sit in front of a noun: a foreboding silence, a foreboding sky — the kind of quiet or look that makes you think trouble is near.
The same word can sit in front of a noun同一個字也可以放在名詞前面: a foreboding silence, a foreboding skya foreboding silence(不祥的寂靜)、a foreboding sky(不祥的天空) — the kind of quiet or look that makes you think trouble is near——那種讓你覺得麻煩快來了的安靜或景象.
You will meet it in stories, news, and careful speech more than in chat; with friends someone might just say I’ve got a bad feeling.
You will meet it你會在 in stories, news, and careful speech故事、新聞和比較講究的說話裡遇到它 more than in chat比在閒聊裡常見; with friends someone might just say跟朋友聊天時可能就只會說 I've got a bad feeling"我有種不好的預感".
Though actually, the feeling is often wrong. The word does not promise that the bad thing will arrive. It only names the feeling.
Though actually其實, the feeling is often wrong這種感覺常常是錯的. The word does not promise that the bad thing will arrive這個字並不保證壞事真的會發生. It only names the feeling它只是替這種感覺命名而已.
組成From Middle English forbodyng: fore- (“ahead”) + bode (“to be a sign of what is coming”) + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
原始詞典資料4 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。
forebodingnoun
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A sense of evil to come.
- To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
- A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
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An evil omen.
forebodingadj
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Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
- Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。