大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 augur well
释义：
augur well 预示吉利（凶兆）
例句：
Conflicts among the various groups do not augur well for the future of the peace talks.
各派之间的冲突对和平谈判不是一个好兆头。
The signs augur well for tomorrow's weather.
种种征候预示明天天气良好。
It doesn't augur well for the woman's future.
这个女人的未来很难预料。
But aggressive measures to cool the property market, for example, do not augur well for the construction sector.
不过，举例来说，旨在给房地产市场降温的大力度举措，对建筑业不是好兆头。
Just as a depletion in the state coffers was an early sign that Ireland's boom was ending, healthier revenues augur well for recovery.
一如国库几乎亏空显示爱尔兰的经济繁荣已经面临尾声，表现更为良好的税收也预示着复苏的开始。
This does not augur well for either the Jewish State or for our interests.
But other, more permanent, shifts—especially the growth of a consuming class in emerging markets—augur well.
But behind the as-yet-undefined specifics of American policy, there appear to lie some new assumptions that augur well for success.
Suffice it to say, however, that such an arrangement does not augur well for the "global" character of the CW ban.
His basic argument—that it is up to the bloggers to prove the documents are fake—does not augur well for the network.
These infrastructure projects augur well for Caterpillar as they will increase the demand for construction equipment and machinery manufactured by the company.
The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.
Previous periods of economic distress—notably the 1930s—do not augur well.
These do not augur well for a stable Middle East.
In light of the slow PC growth, we feel a shifting focus to other markets is a welcome move for the company and should augur well for its outlook.
On the other hand, his decisions to cut his own staff by 20%, to rule out tax rises and to shelve grandiose projects, including a new baseball stadium, augur well.
Such a convergence of opinion should augur well for easy passage -- except that there is a competing resolution, sponsored by eight senators including the powerful majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole.
Apparently, this behavior did not augur well.
But the first two productions, a mediocre "La Traviata" and the New York premiere of "Prima Donna" (2009), a debut opera by the eccentric pop-music celebrity Rufus Wainwright—both staged this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—do not augur well for its artistic future.
Tellingly, shares of all of these banks sell at a discount to the rest of the stockmarket, notwithstanding their demonstrated resilience recently in surviving a recession and a deluge of litigation, as well as benign economic conditions that should augur well for future returns.
The broad and wide access to information does indeed augur well for greater and quicker collaboration across sectors and industries: an entire ecosystem of companies has been developed devoted to making the world as productive as the U.S. is while reducing worry about disease, drought and lack of resources.
The result will, however, augur well for the future, not only of the looming campaign to liberate Iraq but for a Turkey that remains firmly anchored in the West and that will deserve, and should receive, the consideration — political, economic and strategic — to which it will thereby be entitled.
The specter of the president of a major national university running in abject fear, and forming a blue ribbon committee that one suspects has as its mission to pre-emptively run up the white flag to the OCR investigators, is indeed very disturbing and does not augur well for the vibrancy and independence of higher education.
