premonition
premonition 英 [ˌpri:məˈnɪʃn] 美 [ˌpriməˈnɪʃən, ˌprɛmə-]
n. 预告；征兆
名词复数:premonitions
- Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven't seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance, or a feeling that something is going to happen.
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- n. 预告；征兆
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1. Los Angeles is a premonition of this new civilization.
洛杉矶就是这一新兴文化的先兆。
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2. The suit is accompanied by a line from Milk's taped premonition, partly quoted in the film, that he might be assassinated and his exhortation that gays come out of the closet.
衣服的旁边注有这样一句话，摘自缪克的关于他可能被暗杀以及劝告男同性恋应该走出黑屋的并且在影片中部分被引用的曾被录音的预言。
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3. The fox, among many other animals, was used as a symbol of premonition in ancient Chinese texts.
中国古代文献的许多别的动物之中，狐狸常常被用作预兆的符号。
- premonition (n.) mid-15c., from Anglo-French premunition, Middle French premonicion, from Late Latin praemonitionem (nominative praemonitio) "a forewarning," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin praemonere "forewarn," from prae "before" (see pre-) + monere "to admonish, warn, advice," from PIE *moneyo-, suffixed (causative) form of root *men- (1) "to think."
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