| 词组 | augur |
| 释义 | augur 1. See auger, augur. 2. Finegan 1980 cites Newman 1974 as saying "Augur does not take for after it. It cannot take for after it." But in modern English augur very frequently takes for, and after the phrase augur well (or sometimes ill), for is usual: • ... the book sets a standard that augurs well for the future —R. D. Martin, Nature, 29 Aug. 1984 • ... doesn't augur especially well for "6 O'Clock Follies." —John J. O'Connor, N. Y. Times, 24 Apr. 1980 • ... his very survival augurs well for his future mastery —Robert Coles, Harper's, November 1971 • The record augurs well for the prospects of Britain's girls —Illustrated London News, 31 Aug. 1968 • ... felt that the hopefuls now in the field augur well for the party —Time, 7 Apr. 1952 • Neither point of view augurs well for the arousing of American interest —Selected Writings of Edward Sapir, ed. David G. Mandelbaum, 1949 • ... this is the significant message of his song that augurs bright for the working class —Indian Rev., January 1946 • ... greater facility in negotiating with each other, which augurs well for the peace of the world — Franklin D. Roosevelt, report to Congress, 1 Mar. 1945, in Voices of History 1945-46, ed. Nathan Ausubel, 1946 • ... her appearance augured ill for the interview — Fred Whishaw, At the Court of Catherine the Great, 1899 Of is less frequently used now than formerly, but it too is standard: • This seemed to augur ill of Christianity —Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, 1953 • We might augur more hopefully of Spain's attempt —Irving Babbitt, Spanish Character and Other Essays, 1940 • ... an unloved brother, of whom worse things had been augured —George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861 • Fletcher, from the beginning had augured ill of the enterprise —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 To seems to be no longer in use: • One vote, which augurs ill to the rights of the people —Thomas Jefferson, Writings, 1788 (OED) auspicious Phythian 1979 and Bryson 1984 would like to limit auspicious to the sense "propitious, promising, of good omen." They both are suspicious of the public speaker's "on this auspicious occasion," in which they interpret auspicious to mean "special, memorable, distinguished." If they wished merely to call the phrase a cliché, it would be hard to disagree with them, but in their reading of the meaning of auspicious, they are in error. The sense that they misinterpret is dated back to the 17th century in the OED; it means "marked by good auspices, prosperous." • ... documents an auspicious period in the history of the music —Bluegrass Unlimited, April 1982 • ... it seems perhaps an auspicious moment to quantify some of the feelings and reactions I have had in more than 20 years as director —S. Dillon Ripley, Smithsonian, September 1984 This sense is perfectly well established and standard. |
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