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foreboding

noun
🔊/fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/
🔊/fɔːrˈbəʊdɪŋ/
 [uncountable, countable]
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  1. a strong feeling that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen（对不祥或危险事情的）强烈预感
    • She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad.她预感到这会是坏消息。🔊🔊
    • The letter filled him with foreboding.那封信让他充满了不祥的预感。
    • He knew from her face that his forebodings had been justified.他从她的脸上看出，自己不祥的预感是正确的。🔊🔊
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    • He returned, full of foreboding, to the scene of the accident.他怀着强烈的预感回到事故现场。
    • I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.我有一种不祥的预感，总觉得要出事。
    • She had a foreboding of danger.她有一种危险的预感。
    • The sky was dull, with a foreboding of rain.天空灰蒙蒙的，好像要下雨了。
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • dark
    • deep
    verb + foreboding
    • feel
    • have
    • be full of
    • …
    preposition
    • foreboding of
    phrases
    • a feeling of foreboding
    • a sense of foreboding
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foreboding

adjective
🔊/fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/
🔊/fɔːrˈbəʊdɪŋ/
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  1. making you feel that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen（对不祥或危险事情的）强烈预感
    • a foreboding feeling that something was wrong出了问题的不祥预感
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