大家好，欢迎来的饼哥英语口语的频道，今天我们分享一个非常有用且地道的口语表达——the writing is on the wall, 这个短语的含义不是指“写在了墙上”，其正确的含义是：

the writing is on the wall 已出现不祥之兆，已有厄运临头的预兆

You need to resign now. The writing is on the wall, and there's no reason you need to go down with this company when it folds.

你现在需要辞职了。已经出现不祥之兆，你没有理由在这家公司倒闭时和它一起倒下。

The handwriting is on the wall for many aquatic species, but there is hope that we can make some changes to save some of them.

对于许多水生物种来说，已出现不祥之兆，但我们有希望做出一些改变来拯救其中的一些物种。

The writing is clearly on the wall. If we do nothing about it, we shall only have ourselves to blame.

已经出现不祥之兆，如果我们不做任何事，我们应该怪我们自己。

The handwriting was on the wall for Peters when she lost the first set 6-1 in less than 20 minutes.

当彼得斯在不到20分钟的时间里以6比1的比分输掉第一盘的时候，已经出现不祥之兆。