an inauspicious start
不吉利的開頭
牛津詞典
The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
他遲到了,會議一開始就不順利。
The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead , unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
真的,它確實很象, 但卻是一種呆滯死板, 暮氣沉沉, 毫無情感的相似.
辭典例句
It was an inauspicious start, to say the least.
這就是聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局不太顯赫的開端.
期刊摘選
My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven.
我的話伴隨著不祥的雷鳴響徹寰宇.
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Thirteen is an inauspicious number. No one like to live in that room.
13是個不吉利的數(shù)字, 沒人愿意住一個有不祥號碼的房間.
期刊摘選
The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious.
中國人一般講究禮品成雙, 因為奇數(shù)被視為不吉利.
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It is a superstitious tradition that corvine is inauspicious.
傳說老鴰是種不吉利的鳥,其實那只是大家的一種迷信.
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The purchase comes at an inauspicious time in commercial real estate, amid falling prices high debt.
斯皮策此次投資正值商用房地產(chǎn)行業(yè)水深火熱之時, 房價接連下挫、到處都是負債.
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These inauspicious yet historically important rooms have been hidden from the public for too long.
雷德告訴記者說:這些現(xiàn)在看來有些陰森但是具有重要歷史意義的房間已經(jīng)隱藏了太長時間了.
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It is inauspicious to walk under a ladder.
從梯子下走過是不吉利的.
辭典例句
The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
他遲到了，會議一開始就不順利。
柯林斯例句
"adverse circumstances"
"made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
"ill omens"
"ill predictions"
"my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley
"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
"a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"