betoken

UK:  [bɪ'təʊkən]

US:  [bɪ'toʊkən]

过去分词：betokened  现在分词：betokening  第三人称单数：betokens  

v.

1.预示,是…的预兆

2.表示,表白

3.指示

1 . Prince Bagration nodded his head to betoken that all this was exactly what he had desired and expected.
巴格拉季翁公爵颔颔首，心里表示，这全部事态和他预料的情况完全一样。

2 . The Soviet Union's space-faring triumph did not betoken much of an economic threat.
苏联在进军太空时所取得的成就并没有预示什么经济威胁。

3 . Others destined for death were also in the camps, but their presence did not betoken a program of genocide.
其他注定要死的人也在集中营里，但他们的存在并不能预示这是一个有计划的灭种和屠杀运动。

4 . That would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity.
那只是预示我们将有七年丰收和七年饥荒。

5 . Both are produced in response to an informing and betoken a change of cognitive state.
两者均用来回应讯息告知，并且反映谈话者认知状态的改变。