bad omen

It can be looked to as a sign of good fortune; others look at it as a bad omen, a warning of terrible events to take place.

有些人认为这是好运气，另一些人则觉得这是凶兆，预示着恐怖的事件即将发生。

One lantern, however, became tangled in electrical lines. The student's mother looked devastated-for this, according to local belief, was a bad omen, all but dooming her child to finishing "below the line" on the gaokao.

但其中一盏被电线缠住，放飞这盏灯的母亲看起来深受打击——按照当地的说法，这是个恶兆，预示着她孩子的高考分数会“过不了线”。

The ominous rumblings from a once-dormant volcano were a bad omen.

一座曾一度休眠的火山不时传来不祥的轰隆隆声这可是个不好的预兆.

Ancient people thought a lunar eclipse was a bad omen.

古代的人们相信月蚀是一种坏的预兆.

The superstitious regard it as a bad omen.

迷信的人认为那是一种恶兆.

It was a bad omen.

那实在是个不吉的预兆。

The camels are restless. A bad omen for you I think.

这些骆驼很不平静. 我想,对你这是个坏兆头.

a good/bad omen

吉祥的 / 不祥的预兆

When it rained on their wedding day she took it as a bad omen.

他们举行婚礼那天下雨了,她认为这是个不祥的象徵.

It was a bad omen last year when this freewheeling western conservative in the Reagan mould went off to court the intolerant Christian right.

当去年这位来自西部如里根总统一样随心所欲的保守派跑去刻意讨好他本不能容忍的基督教右派时，这种糟糕的征兆就有了苗头。