foreboding UK [fɔ:'bəʊ.dɪŋ] US [fɔ:r'boʊ-] noun countable or uncountable literary ■a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon (对不祥之事的)预感•There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.在首都有种不祥的预感,似乎战争随时都可能爆发。 •Her forebodings about the future were to prove justified.她对未来的不祥预感即将得到证实。 •[+ (that)] He had a strange foreboding (that) something would go wrong.他有种要出问题的奇怪的预感。 |