omen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 预兆, 征兆，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Trojans were struck with ter-ror when they saw the snake, portent of aegis-bearing Jove, writhing in the midst of them, and Polydamas went up to Hector and said, 'Hector, at our councils of war you are ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless I will say what I think will be best; let us not now go on to fight the Danaans at their ships, for I know what will happen if this soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our host with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons (the snake being still alive) was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench.
-- Then Priam said, 'I would go, do not therefore stay me nor be as a bird of ill omen in my house, for you will not move me.
-- Pray to the son of Sat-urn lord of the whirlwind, who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy, pray him to send his swift messenger on your right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to him of all birds, that you may see it with your own eyes and trust it as you go forth to the ships of the Danaans.
-- 'Father Jove,' he said, 'that rulest from Ida, most glorious and most great, grant that I may be received kindly and compassionately in the tents of Achilles; and send your swift messenger upon my right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to you of all birds, that I may see it with my own eyes and trust it as I go forth to the ships of the Danaans.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's an omen of evil," she said.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within the bosom of the encircling hills, an impenetrable darkness had already settled; and the plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without omen or whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.
-- At this sudden and unexpected annunciation, a low, fierce yell ran through the multitude, that might not in-aptly be compared to the growl of the lion, as his choler is first awakened a fearful omen of the weight of his future anger.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a beginning was no good omen for the end.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed that the omen was an unpropitious one, for, as the rather untoward commencement of Oak's overtures, just as he arrived by the garden gate, he saw a cat inside, going into various arched shapes and fiendish convulsions at the sight of his dog George.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I take it as a good omen for the future and invite you to my wedding on the spot,' answered Mr. Brooke, who felt at peace with all mankind, even his mischievous pupil.
-- The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American com-mon sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen accounted good.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was a sad omen of what her mother's behaviour to the gentleman himself might be; and Elizabeth found that, though in the certain possession of his warmest affection, and secure of her relations' consent, there was still some-thing to be wished for.
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