\\\"adverse circumstances\\\"
\\\"made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions\\\"
presaging ill fortune;
\\\"ill omens\\\"
\\\"ill predictions\\\"
\\\"my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven\\\"
\\\"a dead and ominous silence prevailed\\\"
\\\"a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
It is inauspicious to walk under a ladder. 從梯子下走過是不吉利的。
Chinese people consider the number 4 as inauspicious. 中國人認(rèn)4這個數(shù)字不吉利。
常用短語
On that Trees Top an inauspicious Crow Foretold some ill to happen.
出自：A. Cowley
I begin this inauspicious Work, which my ill Stars and you have assign\\\'d me.