| 词组 | propitious |
| 释义 | propitious Propitious is usually used with for or to. For is often followed by a gerund; to is often followed by an infinitive. • Flora's fine eyes, that were so observant, noticed how propitious was this moment for their entry — Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, 1932 • ... when the environment was propitious for expanding the role of science and research —Eli Ginzberg, Columbia Forum, Fall 1970 • ... the time might now be propitious for seeking an amelioration of the religious situation —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 30 Oct. 1971 • ... those journalists who asserted, some years ago, that logical positivism was propitious to fascism — Alfred Jules Ayer, Encounter, April 1955 • ... the French decided that the moment was propitious to declare Viet Nam completely independent —Time, 27 Sept. 1954 • ... felt that the time was propitious to come out into the open —Collier's Year Book, 1949 |
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