They resemble two incense sticks used at sacrifices. It's very inauspicious, and might enrage all present.

要不然它们看上去2香烛，不吉利，座的所有人都会不高兴的。

But despite this inauspicious premiere, the symphony quickly won acclaim.

但是尽管首演不顺利，这部交响曲还是很快赢得了赞誉。

Only forty years have passed since the telephone made such an inauspicious beginning.

自电话出现如此不吉利的开端以来， 仅仅四十年过去了。

But the deception you're contemplating would be deeply disrespectful of her and her desires - and a wildly inauspicious step toward marriage.

但你正考虑的欺骗行为是对她和她的愿望的极大不尊重，也是迈向婚姻的极不吉利的一步。

Droughts and sudden thunderstorms could damage crops, dogs were more likely to become rabid, and it was inauspicious to begin a journey or other large undertaking.

干旱和突如其来的雷雨会破坏庄稼，狗更容易患狂病，开始旅行或其他大事不吉利。

The biggest financial exchange you have never heard of IN THE competition for most inauspicious introduction to finance, Terrence Duffy, the executive chairman of CME Group, must surely be the winner.

你未曾听说的最大金融交易所如若评选最倒霉金融界入行奖，CME集团的执行主席Terrence Duffy必当夺冠。

The other day, on an inauspicious [13]Thursday afternoon, I sallied forth from my room at the call of these same sounds. There was a man on guard in the passage.

前天，一个不祥的 [13] 星期四下午，我这些相同的声音的召唤下从我的房间里跳出来。通道里站着一个人站岗。

Though this was an inauspicious position, it  qualified him to stand for election to become an aedile and after several failed attempts  he finally obtained that office in 38 AD.

尽管这是一个不吉利的职位，但他有资格竞选成为行政长官， 失败的尝试后， 他终于公元 38 年获得了这一职位。

Despite this inauspicious beginning, the marriage was to be a notably happy one by the standards of many royal unions and Albert and Elizabeth had a genuine affection for one another.

尽管一开始并不吉利，但按照许多王室联盟的标准， ​​这段婚姻是一段非常幸福的婚姻， 阿尔伯特和伊丽莎白彼此之间有着真诚的感情。

And, therefore, since we have been unfortunate enough to introduce our heroine at so inauspicious a juncture, we would entreat for a mood of due solemnity in the spectators of her fate.

因此，既然我们很不幸地如此不吉利的时刻介绍了我们的女主人公，我们恳请她的命运的旁观者有一种应有的庄严情绪。

Nevertheless, whether or no it were entirely owing to the inauspicious commencement of their acquaintance, she still acted under a certain reserve, which was by no means customary to her frank and genial nature.

尽管如此，不管这是否完全是由于他们相识的不吉利，她仍然表现得有些拘谨，这绝不是她坦率和和蔼的本性所习惯的。

" This is a very inauspicious time, " a young local turned round from the front seat to warn me (behind him I could see only a mass of raging, but unadvancing, bodies and vehicles, riding their horns).

“这是一个非常不吉利的时刻，”一个年轻的当地人从前座转过身来警告我（他身后，我只能看到没法前进的愤怒身体和车辆，他们都按喇叭)。

Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.

我们即将从那个不吉利的门户发出的叙述的门槛上如此直接地发现它，我们别无选择， 只能摘下其中一朵花， 并将其呈现给读者。