[每日] auspicious (a) 吉利的
Word of the Day (Saturday September 13, 2008)
auspicious \aw-SPISH-uhs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/a14LG
1. Giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting
good; as, "an auspicious beginning."
2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, "auspicious years."
But as Saturday fell on a very auspicious day in the Chinese
calendar, every hotel in Nanjing was booked for weddings.
-- Seth Kaplan with Craig S. Smith, "Adventure the Chinese Way",
New York Times, May 3, 2000
The hard truth of fire management is that the conditions most
auspicious for a "prescribed burn," in which dangerously dense
pine forests are purged of combustible debris, are not so very
different from those that can lead to a devastating wildfire.
-- George Johnson, "Planned Blaze Close Cousin of a Wildfire",
New York Times, May 12, 2000
The priest studied the birth stars of husband and wife, and chose
the most auspicious date for a groundbreaking ceremony, a chilly
day in April.
-- Alastair Gordon, "Raj Style Takes the Silk Road to the
Suburbs", New York Times, January 27, 2000
Auspicious derives from Latin auspicium, "an omen, a sign," from
auspex, "one who observes or looks at the habits of birds for
purposes of divination," from avis, "bird" + specere, "to look,
to look at."
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