But there is an argument for looking at such oddities as portents for the future.

The downgrading of some of its banks this week was a portent of that.

一些德国银行本周信用评级被下调就预示着这种情况的发生。

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According to Dong, Confucius understood the relationship between man and nature and therefore the way to interpret portents and omens.

根据董仲舒的看法，孔子深谙人与自然之间的关系，因而也知道如何解释征兆。

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It is they who interpret the portents and thus exercise a check on the policies of the ruler.

正是儒家学者解释了征兆，从而检查了统治者的政策。

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Amazed that he ignored the portents for so long.

对他这么长时间忽视这些预兆感到惊讶。

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These records are generally made of portents and validations based on the cause-and-effect relationship between the two.

征应的产生建立在二者之间的因果关系上，可以分为“有征必有应”和“有应才有征”两种。

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Is it true that cows lying down in a field are a portent of rain?

母牛躺在田里就预示着要下雨，这是不是真的？

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Based on the analyses for portent information of power sytem failures, This paper proposes a hierarchical causal diagnostic model.

本文分析了电网故障时所表现出的故障征兆信息的特点，在此基础上提出一种分层因果智能诊断模型，这种方法有更好的适应性。

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Many are the portents and the signs.

这里有太多太多的征兆和迹象。

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Whether that number should be seen as a portent, of course, is too soon to tell.

当然，现在要说这个数字是否应该视为一种征兆，还为时尚早。

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But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?

不过，阁下您听说昨天夜里人们看见的征兆了吗？

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This turns out to be a portent of one of the biggest changes since the 1960s.

结果发现这是1960年代以来最大变化的一个预示。

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ET might be the important factor to cause vasoconstriction, resulting in the portent symptoms.

ET可能是导致血管收缩，引起先兆症状的重要因子。

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The timing is also full of portents.

时机的选择也意味深远。

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From portent to eruption, financial crisis is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.

企业的财务危机从出现征兆到完全爆发是一个由量变积累到质变的过程。

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The report reveals some worrying economic portents for the coming year.

报告显示了，来年一些令人担心的经济兆头。

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Such symptoms of prosperity may become portents of disaster!

这类繁荣的症状可能成为灾难的征兆！

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I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year

我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。

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That is what is so unsettling about today's China: Its authoritarian capitalism may not be merely a remainder of our past but a portent of our future.

这就是为什么大家对于今天中国会感到如此不安的地方：它的威权资本主义不单单是我们过去的某个剩余物，还可能是我们未来的预兆。

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Are dreams a portent of things to come?

梦是不是将要发生的事情的预兆？

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The airport authority also has in hand a project for the secondary runway at the western end of Madras airport. It plans to extend this by 152m before the end of this year.

机场官方还要加长马德拉斯机场西端的辅助跑道，年底该跑道将增加152米。

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