音标:[prә'piʃәs] ;
a. 顺利的, 适合的, 吉祥的, 慈悲的
a. presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success

考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词100%

propitious的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. The circumstances were not propitious for further expansion of the company.这些情况不利于公司的进一步发展。
  2. It was not a propitious time to start a new business.这个时候开张不吉利。
  3. People like to hear propitious sentences.人们都喜欢听吉利的话。

经典引文

  • God is propitious to me..my sins are forgiven.

    出自:W. Hamilton
  • For such an adventure that time was not..propitious.

    出自:H. Macmillan
  • A propitious storm saved them.

    出自:A. Fraser
【近义词】
【反义词】

auspicious, adj 吉兆的,幸运的(预示成功兴盛的)=favorable=propitious=benign=dexter 【记】au读:诶哟,spic看-诶哟,快看-一定是好事-吉兆的au诶有,spi=spider蜘蛛,cious:诶有,蜘蛛,有八

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 不择手段背单词

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with management expert Kathleen Kelley Reardon, talking about her new book, Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation. RS: She says dealing with dif

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(181) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

GRE填空最基本的原则就是重复,空格内的信息会在原文中重复出现,因此重复的方式也就成为了需要考生着重注意的焦点。试着比较以下两个例句中的重复方式: 例1. Joshing was in his private lif

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE英语

By Barbara Schoetzau Washington 28 September 2007 A private U.S. foundation has launched a $100 million initiative to strengthen health systems in Africa. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the initiative will support

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(183) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

So competition was fierce. 于是,竞争很激烈。 There was also an omnivorous and unsettling new type of predator on the scene, 而且,出现了一种新的无所不吃的、令人不安的捕食者。 one so perfectly designed for attack tha

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 12 In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to their mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had cal

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

This premiere, Basic Instinct 2 in New York is for Concerned Parents for AIDS Research. And how did you decide? I mean, were you a part of that decision? Yes, I went to the studio when we were plannin

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录
学英语单词
'Ammār, Tall
2-6-difluorophenol
acalephe
animal farming
anode supply
areas of Langerhans
ayodhyas
besottedly
Blümlisalp
Borrman effect
bromotnymol blue
cardiopyloric
center deep tank
ceramic pipe
channel conflict
checked up
christs
clematis heraclefolia dc. var. stens kze.
clinical medicine of cosmonautics
Clinton, George
cobalt(ii) fluosilicate
compounded rate
conjugated diene
corpsegrinder
credit policy
CS (cycle shift)
Curanja, R.
dante gabriel rossettis
delicatessens
digitoxoside
Ear Pods
easiest-to-use
equity debt ratio
existing waterway
fees for survey on ship
film-make
fully-perforated tape
gardenings
gas filled tube
geometric characteristics
germination by repetition
governor pressure
Great Hunter
half shovel
have bouche in court
Herkimer
hydrazine sulfate
image-forming
impliable
inner endodermis
inverse process
keratoconjunctivitis
Mahonia subimbricata
maximal solvable subalgebra
medicinal soap
mercuric thiocyanate
minor limit
modular angle
monrovias
Mousgougou
nano-henry
nature of injury
net provisional tax
non-modular
nuclear fragment
oil reservoir rock
passive trust
Pathiu
pation chair
photoelectric light curve
pnigos
pocket calculator
processus articular superior
psychokinetic
rb-db
regulator drive
reinfiltrates
ride in someone's old boots
savings ratios
Seto Great Bridge
side-by-side
song-thrushes
spiccato bowing
squalomorphs
srsesssisdsesnsts-s
Suevic
Tacna, Dep.de
Texas cattle fever
thermo isohyp
threadier
ticket books
tissue of lies
Tokamak configuration
top-loaded monopole
Toscanini, Arturo
undaub
unurgent
US Air Force
vacant number intercept
vaustity
you can't unring a bell