1.预兆,凶兆;不祥之兆
2.怪事,怪物;奇迹
1.a warning or warnings about the future
1.He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.
他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它--但是它总是返回来。
2.His departure is widely seen as a portent of a more active industrial policy by the government of the country's president, Dilma Rousseff.
他的离去被普遍认为是由该国总统迪尔玛•罗塞夫（DilmaRousseff）政府主导的一个更为积极的工业政策的前兆。
3.Gnome children are born with gem like eyes. Many believe this to be a great portent, but pinations are silent.
82侏儒的孩子生来拥有宝石般的双眼，许多侏儒认为这是一个明显的征兆，但是这个预言却毫无记载。
4.The Standard & Poor's downgrade of United States debt over the summer is a portent of what could lie ahead.
这个夏天标准普尔公司对美国主权信用的降级就是未来走向的一种前兆。
5.An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.
灵魂出窍，亡魂显现活着的人在其临死前出现的作为预兆的鬼魂
6.For many years a dangerous change has been taking place in your stratosphere that has a deadly portent for all earthly life.
很多年来一个危险的变化出现在你们的同温层，有趋势导致所有地球生命走向灭亡。
7.That is probably the nearest thing to a real water war being fought today, and may perhaps be a portent of others to come.
这可能是目前发生的最接近真正水资源战争的冲突，而且有可能预示着其他冲突的来临。
8.And there will be more of this. In a terrible, terrible way this is a portent of things to come and a warning.
还有呢，更多可怕的还在后面，这只是个警告罢了。
9."So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway. "
“因此，这些变化只是未来可能发生情况的微小征兆，尤其是如果我们继续肆意排放二氧化碳。”
10.Historically, January often augurs how the rest of the year will go, although this is hardly a perfect portent.
从以往来看，1月份走势通常预示着一年剩余时间的市场前景，虽然它并不是完美的预兆。