单词	portend
释义	portendpor‧tend /pɔːˈtend $ pɔːr-/ verb [transitive] literary Word Origin WORD ORIGINportend Origin: 1400-1500 Latin portendere ‘to stretch forward’, from tendere ‘to stretch’ Verb Table VERB TABLE portend Simple Form Present it portends Past it portended Present perfect it has portended Past perfect it had portended Future it will portend Future perfect it will have portended Continuous Form Present it is portending Past it was portending Present perfect it has been portending Past perfect it had been portending Future it will be portending Future perfect it will have been portending Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Everyone knew that its sound portended the death of some one in the house within the year. For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world. It might portend something more: the beginning of an ideological countertrend. Nature seems to portend no danger and is there to be utilised by Marlowe and his lover almost as a playground. She sees a shooting star and is heartened by whatever hope it might portend, but before long she is crying again. The failure in New York portended even further trouble. We need to set the standards now, and prepare for the theological and sociological turbulence this discovery portends. What universal debauchery this might portend for our nation! to be a sign that something is going to happen, especially something bad:  strange events that portend disaster
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