omen

前兆、兆し

良いことや悪いことが起こるしるしだと、人々が考えるもの。

やさしい英語で： Something people believe shows that a good or bad event will happen.

• She thought it was a good omen.
• The broken mirror seemed like a bad omen.
• They took the bird's arrival as an omen of peace.

使い方： an omen of something (They saw the dark clouds as an omen of disaster.)

類義語： sign, portent, augury

よく使う表現： good omen, bad omen, omen of something, ill omen

前兆となる、予兆となる

これから何かが起こることを示すしるしになる。

やさしい英語で： To be a sign that something will happen in the future.

• The dark sky omened disaster.
• They believed the eagle's arrival omened victory.
• The strange silence seemed to omen approaching death.

類義語： foretell, portend, foreshadow

よく使う表現： omen disaster, omen a victory