She picked up the phone but there was an ominous silence at the other end.

她拿起电话，但对方只有不祥的沉默。

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A young woman, for example, related how her father had had an ominous dream, but nonetheless went into the jungle the next day and was killed.

例如，一名年轻女子就讲述了她的父亲是如何做了一个不祥的梦，但却还是去了树林，结果第二天就遇害身亡的事。

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Hamas may be quiescent in the West Bank now, but some of its militants there have given ominous interviews warning that they have lots of men and lots of guns.

现在哈马斯也许对西岸保持沉默，但他们中的一些激进分子公开了一段不祥的访谈，警告道他们拥有很多人和很多枪。

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All right. So those of you that are raising your hand, and some aren't raising their hands but that's okay, those of you almost unanimously say that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony sounds somewhat ominous to us, somewhat fateful to us, and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conversely has a different sort of feel to it.

你们其中的有些人举起了手,其他的没有举,其实都很好,你们当中的几乎一致认定,贝多芬第五交响乐,听起来是对宿命的激烈的抗争,然而贝多芬第九交响曲相反的,采用了另外的一种不同的方式

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Behind us, the sun showed itself for the first time, but an ominous cloud still hovered above the island in the distance.

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