| 词汇 | inauspicious |
| 词源 | inauspicious. It has been remarked that “no other word ever had such a premiere as inauspicious,” which made its debut in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo crying: Here, here, will I remain . . . And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Shakespeare probably invented inauspicious, as he did auspi- cious (in The Tempest), meaning favorable, conducive to suc- cess. Its roots are in the Latin auspex, a corruption of avispex, for the Roman birdwatcher who deduced omens from the flight of birds. |
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