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portentousness

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

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

    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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