Traduzione inglese <> italiano di It doesn't bode well
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Traduzione e definizione
to bode ill (or to not bode well): essere di cattivo auspicio (o non promettere nulla di buono)
It wouldn't bode well for you to come in late when the potential investors are coming to check out the offices. You could get into trouble with management. Non sarebbe di buon auspicio per te arrivare in ritardo quando i potenziali investitori vengono a visitare gli uffici. Potresti avere dei problemi con la direzione.
to bode well: essere di buon auspicio
Esempi
- "Organization of space (for example, in your case, it may bode ill if your bottles of poison are kept on the same shelf as the herbal extracts)."
Esercizio 1
Polly writes that "it may bode ill" if Horatio's bottles of poison are mixed with his herbal extracts.
What does she mean by this?
What does she mean by this?
Polly writes that "it may bode ill" if Horatio's bottles of poison are mixed with his herbal extracts.
What does she mean by this?
What does she mean by this?
Although the terms "ill" and "sick" can both refer to someone being unwell or having a disease in other contexts, that's not the meaning here. "To bode ill" is an idiom which refers to something suggesting bad outcomes in the future.
The idiom "it bodes ill" expresses that something is a bad idea or a bad omen. Polly is warning Horatio that it would leave a bad impression, and may even be bad luck, if Miss Stake were to discover Horatio's poisons and herbal extracts on the same shelf as the ingredients of his perfumes.
We can infer that Miss Stake "wouldn't be proud" to see the bottles organized like this, however, this is not the most accurate definition for the expression "to bode ill". A "proud" person is confident or self-satisfied.
The expression "to bode ill" does not indicate that Horatio would be punished if Miss Stake discovered his poorly organized bottles.
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