inauspicious

英 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

美 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

adj. 预示前景黯淡的; 不祥的; 不吉利的

BNC.32994 / COCA.27562

牛津词典

adj.

预示前景黯淡的；不祥的；不吉利的
showing signs that the future will not be good or successful
1. an inauspicious start
  不吉利的开头

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 不祥的;凶兆的;不吉利的
Aninauspiciousevent is one that gives signs that success is unlikely.
1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
  他迟到了,会议一开始就不顺利。

双语例句

The signs are inauspicious.
种种迹象并不令人乐观。
Answer: well, nobody may take it into much account, because it will be considered inauspicious.
回答：每人会对这个问题多想的，因为可能会认为不太吉利。
This procedure is very inauspicious, usually we manage it to be called "the accident".
这种做法是很不吉利的，通常我们管它叫“三长两短”。
The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious. So, dual Euler method is better than quaternion method in the solution of the singularity of the Euler equation.
中国人一般讲究礼品成双，因为奇数被视为不吉利。因此，对于解决欧拉方程奇异性来讲，双欧法要优于四元数法。
All along the way people make great efforts to avoid any inauspicious influence.
一路上人们都会竭力避免不好的影响。
Since their inauspicious beginnings, all four of these units have embarked on a path that has taken them far from their original mandate of debt resolution units to becoming quasi-boutique investment banks.
从不吉利的起点出发后，四家资产管理公司所走的道路全都远远偏离了处置不良债务的初衷，而摇身变成了准精品投资银行。
The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
真的，它确实很象，但却是一种呆滞死板，暮气沉沉，毫无情感的相似。
According to the five ceremonies auspicious, inauspicious, fine, guest, military, we analyze the jade articles 'distinctive status and important effect in the ceremony civilization.
分别从这个时期吉、凶、宾、军、嘉五礼，分析玉器在礼制文明中的独特地位和重要作用。
Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
既然我们要讲述的故事要从这一不样的门口开篇，而恰恰在门限处一眼便可望见这丛野玫瑰，我们怎能不摘下一朵玫瑰花，将其呈献给读者呢！
The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
他迟到了，会议一开始就不顺利。