portents

According to Dong, Confucius understood the relationship between man and nature and therefore the way to interpret portents and omens.

根据董仲舒的看法，孔子深谙人与自然之间的关系，因而也知道如何解释征兆。

Many are the portents and the signs.

这里有太多太多的征兆和迹象。

As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.

至于她和亚当的婚约，我看兆头不妙。

It is they who interpret the portents and thus exercise a check on the policies of the ruler.

正是儒家学者解释了征兆，从而检查了统治者的政策。

I must say, her engagement to Adam seems to carry gloomy portents, as for their future.

我不得不说，她和亚当的婚约似乎带有不祥的兆头，至于他们的未来。

Amazed that he ignored the portents for so long.

对他这么长时间忽视这些预兆感到惊讶。

The timing is also full of portents.

时机的选择也意味深远。

The report reveals some worrying economic portents for the coming year.

报告显示了，来年一些令人担心的经济兆头。

three months ago buttonwood pointed to three portents that would suggest investors should prepare for the worst.

三个月前，Buttonwood（经济政策栏）指出建议投资人做好最坏打算三种征兆。

So the hiccups are worth noting as portents.

因此这些问题作为不好的征兆而值得关注.

Comets have long been regarded by the superstitious as portents of calamity or important events.

彗星长期以来都被迷信地认为是灾难和重要事件将发生前的预兆.

But even with this extra support, labour-market portents still look grim.

但是即使采取了额外支持措施，劳动力市场依然阴霾密布

The portents cannot be ignored.

这些征兆不可忽视。

These records are generally made of portents and validations based on the cause-and-effect relationship between the two.

征应的产生建立在二者之间的因果关系上，可以分为“有征必有应”和“有应才有征”两种。

Such symptoms of prosperity may become portents of disaster!

这类繁荣的症状可能成为灾难的征兆！

But there is an argument for looking at such oddities as portents for the future.

但是，有理由将这样怪异之事视为未来走向的征兆。

These are portents; but yet I hope.

这便是它的征兆，可是我希望。