v.预示( portend的第三人称单数 );预兆;给…以警告;预告;
例句:
Perhaps the present concern with the values of liberal arts education portends an intellectual anemia.
现在关心大学文科教育的重要性也许意味着患了智力贫血症.
It portends we are in danger.
这预示我们陷入危险.
His silence portends trouble.
他沉默不语不是好兆头.