an inauspicious start
不吉利的开头
1.不吉祥的,不利的
1.something that is inauspicious makes you think that success is not likely
1.If it is too gorgeous, it is especially inauspicious . You should also avoid a straight path from the front door to the back door.
如果太过华丽，更以凶论，自己独栋的房子也应留不前后直通的后门（才不会阻碍家运）。
2.Such an ill-fated person gets birth in an inauspicious state of being in the next world.
这样一个倒霉蛋到了阴间依然生于一个不幸的国度。
3.Setting a rather inauspicious precedent, the empress is said to have fortified her driver, Sun Fuling, with a generous bowl of rice wine.
据说，皇太后给他的司机孙富龄喝了一大碗米酒让他壮胆，这真是个不幸的前车之鉴啊。
4.Although the chaos at Heathrow was an inauspicious start, it is important that the Prime Minister's mission to China should not crash-land .
虽然布朗的访华之旅将从混乱的希思罗机场开始，但是首相这次访问将有着十分重大的意义。
5.For China's estimated 130m migrant workers, this inauspicious start to the Year of the Ox is only likely to get worse.
对于中国约1.3亿农民工而言，牛年开头就不吉利，而情况可能只会变得更糟。
6.The political timing for a comprehensive solution may also be inauspicious.
在政治上，全面彻底的解决问题或许也不合时宜。
7.The last two-week stock rally like this came in March 2000, an inauspicious time to barrel into stocks.
2000年3月也曾出现过类似过去两周的股市飙升，那对股市来说是个不祥的回忆。
8.With these inauspicious circumstances, it is no surprise the IMF is rapidly burying its multilateral consultations on global imbalances.
由于这些不利的环境，难怪国际货币基金组织迅速结束了关于全球失衡问题的多边磋商。
9.Because nine is an extreme number, Chinese have the saying that it is inauspicious to run across nine.
由于“九”是个极数，所以，中国人认为碰到“九”不吉利。
10.Part of the reason was due to principles of feng shui, or geomancy, which held that digging underground was inauspicious.
风水是其中原因之一，因为地下动土在风水学说中被视为不吉。