harbinger
预兆
definition
noun
witch hazels are the harbingers of spring
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
translation of 'harbinger'
verb
预示,
预兆
noun
先驱者,
先声
example
The huge rally in the bond market last Thursday, in spite of renewed dollar weakness, could be a 'harbinger' of something very important.
Everyone spoke about the heat, not really sure if it was a springtime anomaly or a 'harbinger' of summer.
these works were not yet opera, but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Last Sunday I heard the unmistakable sound of the first cuckoo, traditional 'harbinger' of a spring election.
One might take him as a premature 'harbinger' of cultural studies, but for his important flaw of attachment to art.
Those examples of working across different media are the most important to understand, as they are the 'harbinger' of the future.
IBM's warning last week was one of several negative signals from the industry and may be a 'harbinger' of the earnings reports to come.
The Nasdaq correction is a major signal, but not the 'harbinger' of disaster.
Monday's rallies would be important only if they are a 'harbinger' of much bigger and more confrontational demonstrations down the road.
In this way, Wislicenus stands as a 'harbinger' of a physical chemical, mechanistic approach to organic structure.
these works were not yet opera but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
It's just that its call is the 'harbinger' of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
It's the first crack of the bat that's the true 'harbinger' of spring.
Those welcome 'harbingers' of Spring, daffodils, are in some sheltered sun traps starting to display buds which will soon burst into golden bloom to signal the imminent curtain call for the Winter season.
Caucasian men are either evil skirt-chasers OR the 'harbingers' of a greater civilisation - but only in their own minds.
Through sleet and rain, through 25 cm of April snow, through the buzz of locusts, we turn to these weather prognosticators for 'harbingers' of better times.
Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest 'harbingers' of spring.
They all seemed to be omens to me, 'harbingers' of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
Despite the 'harbingers' of doom the demand for electricity in Ireland continues to increase, Mr McManus told the Cork Chamber of Commerce business breakfast in association with the Irish Examiner.
In a way then, you could almost call them 'harbingers' of innovation… like wars have been for all of humanity's history…
Yet the fact that a few Nazis admired classical architects doesn't mean that classical architects are, perforce, the 'harbingers' of totalitarianism.
Indeed, during the last decade the chief 'harbingers' of leftist ideas have been the cosmopolitan intellectuals rather than the working class for whom they were intended.
Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as 'harbingers' of neo imperialism.
Pioneers of bushwalking and advocates of national parks were the 'harbingers' of an engagement with nature that at last offered respect for and restitution of the environment.
You see, when you look at the number in terms of consumer confidence, consumer spending, there are good 'harbingers' in terms of how people are feeling about the economy.
Here in Minnesota, we've seen some 'harbingers' of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
Where the anti-terrorists panic about evil individuals sneaking on to flights and doing bad things, the bird-flu worriers see all people moving around the world as the potential 'harbingers' of death and disease.
Come now, what else could I possibly say about a weblog which argues that Girls Aloud - ‘the anti-Carrie Bradshaws’ - are the 'harbingers' of a new punk revolution?
The crows are great as 'harbingers' of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard.
I am told I am on Prospero's Isle, where the scent of the cempak flower is said to ease the pains of the world, where frangipani blooms rain down as 'harbingers' of a storm, where even the poverty is wrapped in shiny banana leaves.
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