Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 109
Augur (v. i.) 占卜；預言 To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
My auguring mind assures the same success. -- Dryden.
Augur (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
Augur (v. t.) 預示，是……的預兆；占卜；預言 To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
It seems to augur genius. -- Sir W. Scott.
I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. -- J. F. W. Herschel.
Syn: To predict; forebode; betoken; portend; presage; prognosticate; prophesy; forewarn.
Augur (n.) (Ancient Rome) A religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy [syn: {augur}, {auspex}].
Augur (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Augur (v.) Predict from an omen.
Augural (a.) 占卜者的；預言的 Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." -- Cowper.
Augurate (v. t. & i.) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] -- C. Middleton.
Augurate (n.) The office of an augur. -- Merivale.
Auguration (n.) The practice of augury.
Augurer (n.) An augur. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Augurial (a.) Relating to augurs or to augury. -- Sir T. Browne.
Augurist (n.) An augur. [R.]
Angurize (v. t.) To augur. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Augurous (a.) Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." -- Chapman.
Augurship (n.) (pl. - s) (Historical) The office, or period of office, of an augur in ancient Rome. -- Bacon.
Auguries (n. pl. ) of Augury
Augury (n.) （古羅馬）占卜術，占卜儀式；前兆，預兆，徵兆 The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
Augury (n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
From their flight strange auguries she drew. -- Drayton.
He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. -- Prescott.
Augury (n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
Augury (n.) An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: {augury}, {sign}, {foretoken}, {preindication}].
August (a.) 威嚴的；令人敬畏的；尊嚴的 Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." -- Pope. "August in visage." -- Dryden. "To shed that august blood." -- Macaulay.
So beautiful and so august a spectacle. -- Burke.
To mingle with a body so august. -- Byron.
Syn: Grand; magnificent; majestic; solemn; awful; noble; stately; dignified; imposing.
August (n.) 八月 The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Note: The old Roman name was Sextilis, the sixth month from March, the month in which the primitive Romans, as well as Jews, began the year. The name was changed to August in honor of Augustus C[ae]sar, the first emperor of Rome, on account of his victories, and his entering on his first consulate in that month.
August (a.) Of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: {august}, {grand}, {lordly}].
August (a.) Profoundly honored; "revered holy men" [syn: {august}, {revered}, {venerable}].
August (n.) The month following July and preceding September [syn: {August}, {Aug}].
Augustan (a.) 文藝全盛時期的；（古羅馬）奧古斯都時代的 Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.
Augustan (a.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
{Augustan age}, Of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[ae]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature.
{Augustan confession} (Eccl. Hist.), Or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. Augustine
Augustan (a.) Relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus; "the Augustan Age".
Augustan (a.) Connected with or occurring during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus.
‘A Roman villa of the Augustan period.’
Augustan (a.) Relating to or denoting Latin literature of the reign of Augustus, including the works of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy.
Augustan (a.) Relating to or denoting 17th- and 18th-century English literature of a style considered refined and classical, including the works of Pope, Addison, and Swift.
‘Poets of the Augustan age.’
Augustan (n.) 文藝全盛時期的文學家；奧古斯都時代的作家 A writer of the (Latin or English) Augustan period or style.
Augustine (n.) Alt. of Augustinian
Augustinian (n.) (Eccl.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.
Augustinian (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.
{Augustinian canons}, An order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also {regular canons of St. Austin}, and {black canons}.
{Augustinian hermits} or {Austin friars}, An order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790.
{Augustinian nuns}, An order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine.
{Augustinian rule}, A rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.
Augustinian (n.) One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.
Augustinianism (n.) Alt. of Augustinism
Augustinism (n.) The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.
Augustly (adv.) In an august manner.
Augustness (n.) The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
Auk (n.) (Zool.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcid[ae]. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca impennis (or Plautus impennis) . The razor-billed auk is Alca torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.
Auk (n.) Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
Aukward (a.) See Awkward. [Obs.]
Aularian (a.) Relating to a hall.
Aularian (n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. -- Chalmers.
Auld (a.) Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Auld (a.) A Scottish word; "auld lang syne".
Auld lang syne () A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."
Auletic (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] -- Ash.
Aulic (a.) Pertaining to a royal court.
Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
Aulic (a.) Pertaining to a royal court.
Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. -- Landor.
Aulic council (Hist.), A supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. -- P. Cyc.
Auln (n.) An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.
Aulnage (n.) Alt. of Aulnager
Aulnager (n.) See Alnage and Alnager.
Aum (n.) Same as Aam.
Aum (n.) A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train" [syn: Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth].
Aumail (v. t.) To figure or variegate. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Aumbry (n.) Same as Ambry.
Aumery (n.) A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.
Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. -- Halliwell.
Auncetry (n.) Ancestry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aune (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.
Aung San Suu Kyi (n.) 翁山蘇姬（緬甸語；緬甸語委轉寫：aung hcan: cu. krany，拉丁轉寫：Aung San Suu Kyi，/aʊŋˌsæn.suːˈtʃiː/, [2] 緬甸語發音：[àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]；1945年6月19日－），緬甸的政治家、外交家和作家，現任國務資政和緬甸外交部部長。翁山是全國民主聯盟的創辦人之一、現任主席和前總書記，生於緬甸仰光，父親為被緬甸人民尊稱為國父的翁山將軍。
1990年其帶領全國民主聯盟贏得大選的勝利，但選舉結果被國家和平與發展委員會（軍政府）作廢。其後21年間她被軍政府斷斷續續軟禁於其寓所中長達15年，受各界人士與國際特赦組織持續援助，2010年11月13日緬甸大選後終於獲釋。2013年3月10日在仰光舉行的全國民主聯盟第一次全國代表大會上當選主席一職 [3]。
1990年獲得薩哈羅夫獎，翌年獲得諾貝爾和平獎。2012年4月她成功當選緬甸國會下議院議員，並於5月2日正式上任 [4]。2012年9月獲美國國會頒發最高榮譽的國會金質獎章。
2016年3月接任緬甸外交部、總統府事務部兩個部的部長 [5] [6] [7]。4月同時出任新設置的國務資政一職，被外界視為相當於緬甸總理的職務 [8] [9]，成為實際的領導人 [10]。
Aung San Suu Kyi (/aʊŋˌsæn.suːˈtʃiː/; Burmese; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author. She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State Counsellor, a position akin to a Prime Minister. [2] She is also the first woman to serve as Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the President's Office, for Electric Power and Energy, and for Education. From 2012 to 2016 she was an MP for Kawhmu Township to the House of Representatives.
The youngest daughter of Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, British Burma. After graduating from the University of Delhi in 1964 and the University of Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. She married Michael Aris in 1972, and gave birth to two children. Aung San Suu Kyi rose to prominence in the 1988 Uprisings, and became the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which she had newly formed with the help of several retired army officials who criticized the military junta. In the 1990 elections, NLD won 81% of the seats in Parliament, but the results were nullified, as the military refused to hand over power, resulting in an international outcry. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989 to 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.
Her party boycotted the 2010 elections, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. Aung San Suu Kyi became a Pyithu Hluttaw MP while her party won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the 2012 by-elections. In the 2015 elections, her party won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Assembly of the Union – well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates were elected President and Second Vice President in the Presidential Electoral College. Although she was prohibited from becoming the President due to a clause in the constitution – her late husband and children are foreign citizens – she assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor, a role akin to a Prime Minister or a head of government. Aung San Suu Kyi's honours include the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 1991.
Compare: Solidarity
Solidarity (n.) [Mass noun ] 團結；團結一致 Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.
‘Factory workers voiced solidarity with the striking students.’
Solidarity (n.) An independent trade union movement in Poland which developed into a mass campaign for political change and inspired popular opposition to Communist regimes across eastern Europe. Formed in 1980 under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa, it was banned in 1981 following the imposition of martial law. Legalized again in 1989, it won a majority in the elections of that year.
Aunt (n.) [C] 伯母；嬸母；姑母；姨母；舅母；（對年長婦女的稱呼）阿姨 The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
Aunt (n.) An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.
Aunt (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Aunt Sally, A puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
字義：莎莉大嬸/ 莎莉姑媽/ 莎莉阿姨
轉喻：眾矢之的；被嘲笑或洩憤的對象
說明：根據《牛津英語大辭典》(Oxford English Dictionary, OED)，Aunt Sally 起源於 19 世紀，為何說「起源於」呢? 因為 Aunt Sally 不是人名，而是一種遊戲。這種遊戲經常出現在露天市集或園遊會上，有些酒吧甚至也流行這種遊戲。
這種遊戲是在場地中間放置一個含著煙斗的老婦人的頭像，而這個老婦人頭像就叫做 Aunt Sally。玩遊戲的人站在一定距離外，用球或棒扔向煙斗，若能打掉煙斗即得獎。
19 世紀中期，Aunt Sally 遊戲在英國非常盛行。到了 1898 年，Aunt Sally 一詞成為「眾矢之的」的代名詞；不過，有時候那些成為眾矢之的的人，係受到惡意中傷或攻訐，但這種沒有根據的指控往往卻被多數人所採信。這種惡意中傷或惡意攻訐在美式英語中被稱為 “a cheap shot”。最後要提的是，Aunt Sally 一詞為可數名詞，複數為 Aunt Sallies。
例句：
They were the Aunt Sallies at the Labour Party conference. (他們是工黨全國大會中被攻擊鬥爭的對象)
Any public figure risks being made an Aunt Sally by the press. (任何公眾人物都有成為新聞界眾矢之的的風險)
Aunt (n.) The sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle [syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle].
Auntter (n.) Adventure; hap. [Obs.]
In aunters, perchance. Aunter
Aunter (v. t.) Alt. of Auntre
Auntre (v. t.) To venture; to dare. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Auntie
Auntie (n.) Alt. of Aunty
Aunty (n.) A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
Auntrous (a.) Adventurous. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aurae (n. pl. ) of Aura
Aura (n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.
Aura (n.) (Med.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
Electric aura, A supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.
Aural (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
Aural (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.
Aural (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear; "an animal with a very sensitive aural apparatus".
Aural (a.) Relating to or characterized by an aura; "various aural effects that precede a migraine headache".
Aurantiaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiace[ae], an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.
Aurate (n.) (Chem.) A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.
Aurated (a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.
Aurated (a.) (Chem.) Combined with auric acid.
Aurated (a.) Having ears. See Aurited.
Aureate (a.) Golden; gilded. -- Skelton.
Aureate (a.) Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant].
Aureate (a.) Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden].
Aurelia (n.) (Zool.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.
Aurelia (n.) (Zool.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.
Aurelian (a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia.
Aurelian (n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
Aureola (n.) Alt. of Aureole
Aureole (n.) (R. C. Theol.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Aureole (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
Note: Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola. -- Fairholt.
Aureole (n.) A halo, actual or figurative.
The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. -- Proctor.
The aureole of young womanhood. -- O. W. Holmes.
Aureole (n.) (Anat.) See Areola, 2.
Aureole (n.) The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible from earth during a solar eclipse, or in outer space by the use of special instruments; a corona[5].
Syn: Corona.
Aureole (n.) The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse [syn: aureole, corona].
Aureole (n.) An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole].
Auric (a.) Of or pertaining to gold.
Auric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.
Aurichalceous (a.) (Zool.) Brass-colored.
Aurichalcite (n.) (Min.) A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.
Auricle (n.) (Anat.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.
Auricle (n.) (Anat.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.
Auricle (n.) (Zool.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.
Auricle (n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. -- Mansfield.
Auricle (n.) A small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart [syn: auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii].
Auricle (n.) The externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: auricle, pinna, ear].
Auricled (a.) Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.
Auriculae (n. pl. ) of Auricula
Auriculas (n. pl. ) of Auricula
Auricula (n.) (Bot.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
Auricula (n.) (Bot.) Hirneola+({Hirneola+auricula"> A species of Hirneola ({Hirneola auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Jud[ae], or Jew's-ear. -- P. Cyc.
Auricula (n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.
Auricula (n.) (Zool.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish
Auricula (n.) (Zool.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
Auricula (n.) Yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated [syn: auricula, bear's ear, Primula auricula].
Auricula (n.) A pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart [syn: auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix].
Auricular (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. -- Milton.
Auricular (a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence. "Auricular assurance." -- Shak.
Auricular (a.) Received by the ear; known by report. "Auricular traditions." -- Bacon.
Auricular (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
Auricular finger, The little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.
Auricular (a.) Of or relating to near the ear [syn: otic, auricular].
Auricular (a.) Relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing; "my apprehension of words is auricular; I must hear what I read"- George Santayana; "an auricular confession"; "an auricular appendage".
Auricular (a.) Pertaining to an auricle of the heart; "auricular fibrillation".
Auricularia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.
Auricularia (n.) Type genus of the Auriculariaceae [syn: Auricularia, genus Auricularia].
Auricularly (adv.) In an auricular manner.
Auriculars (n. pl.) (Zool.) A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.