portent meaning in English
n.
1.预兆，凶兆；不祥之兆。
2.怪事，怪物；奇迹。
Examples
- There came a saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm .
有一个星期六早上，天昏地暗，暴风雨将临。 - He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning .
他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它--但是它总是返回来。 - A sign of a future happening ; a portent
前兆表明将来要发生的事情的现象；预兆 - I see it as a portent of things to come
我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆 - I see it as a portent of thing to come
我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆。