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
GRE
详细释义
Adjective:
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of momentous or ominous significance;
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"
"a prodigious vision"
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ominously prophetic
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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
- 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。 - I see a portentous thing to come.
我预感不祥的事情要来到了。 - 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。 - 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。
用作形容词 (adj.)
相关词汇
- significant 重要的
- black 黑的
- alarming 惊人的
- fated 命中注定的
- forbidding 可怕的
- pompous 傲慢的
- fateful 宿命的
- important 重要的
- crucial 决定性的
- ominous 不祥的
- threatening 威胁(性)的
- pretentious 自命不凡的
- self-important 妄自尊大的
- haughty 傲慢的
- arrogant 傲慢的
- solemn 庄严的
- grave 坟墓
- serious 严肃的
- prodigious 巨大的
- grandiloquent 辞藻浮华的
- overblown 停息的
- pontifical 自以为是的
- foreboding 不祥的预感
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