portentous

英[pɔː'tentəs] 美[pɔːr'tentəs]
  • adj. 前兆的；不吉的；可怕的；煞有介事的；自命不凡的
portentously portentousness
GRE

详细释义

Adjective:
  1. of momentous or ominous significance;

    "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"
    "a prodigious vision"

  2. ominously prophetic

  3. puffed up with vanity;

    "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
    "overblown oratory"
    "a pompous speech"
    "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

双语例句

1. Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.
众多事关重大的抉择强加在了他身上。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.
现在的社会预示着重大变革的发生.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.
同样从社会政治学上看，城市对20世纪思想、文化的贡献也意义重大。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
在我面前展现出一条新的十年的凶多吉少 、 咄咄逼人的道路.

来自英汉文学 - 盖茨比

5. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.
他一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃，浑身散发着幽默。

来自辞典例句

    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.
      现在的社会预示着重大变革的发生。
    2. I see a portentous thing to come.
      我预感不祥的事情要来到了。
    3. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
      这样一个可怕而神秘的怪物激起了我所有的猎奇心。
    4. Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather then pedantic and portentous.
      无论如何，要使它显得很随便，甚至滑稽可笑，而不要显得很迂腐，夜郎自大。

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porter portent portentously
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