- 1不祥的、預兆不好的。
Something ominous makes you feel that trouble is on the way, even before anything bad has happened. Dark clouds can look ominous. A long silence after a hard question can feel ominous. Film music goes low and slow to make a scene feel ominous. It is about the feeling of a bad future, not the bad thing itself. It always leans negative — you would not call a birthday cake ominous. The word comes from , a sign of the future, plus a piece that means 'full of' that feeling. Though actually, people stretch it a little: a quiet street at night is not a message from the future, but we still call it ominous because it gives the same chill.
組成From Latin ōminōsus, 'full of foreboding', from ōmen. Built in English as the adjective beside omen.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
ominousadj/ˈɒmɪnəs/
- 1
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.
- 2
Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
- California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
- The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
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