英语释义

• of momentous or ominous significance;

  "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville

  "a prodigious vision"

• puffed up with vanity;

  "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

  "overblown oratory"

  "a pompous speech"

  "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

• of ominous significance

片语

a building of portentous size一座特别大的建筑物

portentous premonition不祥的预兆

portentous s奇特

surprise惊奇，诧异；突然袭击

Not Portentous Fluster Runs不可惊慌乱跑

portentous s a兇兆的

A portentous sign or event预兆

portentous signs星流霆击

bodeful不祥的；预兆的

英汉例句

• but for me, the surest laughs came from the portentous percussion in carter burwell「s wonderful underscoring; it pile-drives an expectation of suspense that the film never delivers.

  对我来说，真正的笑声是来自carterburwell装腔作势的打击乐器，这样的配乐传递出影像并没有达到的对悬念的期待。

• the raelians are a small group, chiefly canadian and french, founded by one claude vorilhon, who now goes by the more portentous handle of 「rael」.

  拉耶尔教派是一小拨人，主要成员是加拿大人和法国人，是由一个叫克罗德-沃利亚的人创立的，如今他以显得更能预示未来的「拉耶尔」作为自己的名字。

• europe」s leaders plan a jamboree in berlin that will issue a portentous declaration.

  欧洲领导人计划在柏林举行盛大庆典，并发表一项重要的预示性宣言。

• hoping this was an isolated incident, i spent that night awake, searching for more of her portentous advice, finding instance after instance of her wisdom come to fruition.

  希望这只是一个个别的事件，那一晚我一直清醒着，在脑海中搜索母亲更多的预言性的建议，发现她的智慧的预言一件一件地变为现实。

• toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting;

  这样一种极其严肃又吉兇未卜的欢迎方式，使蟾蜍感到忐忑不安。

• the paper confirms that the ocean is exquisitely sensitive to small variations in the earth「s temperature — a portentous finding, given that human emissions are inducing a large temperature rise.

  该论文确认，海洋对地球温度的微小变化非常敏感——鑒于人类排放在导致温度大幅上升，这个发现令人担忧。

• he introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm.

  他热情彭湃地介绍着每个怪异的话题。

• the portentous thinker i placed on the edge of the cupboard so that he looked down at the bath towel and waited for it to slip.

  那个怪异的思考者，我把它放到了橱柜边缘，这样他好象在朝下盯着那条浴巾，等待着它掉下来。

• the words always had a portentous sound in my ears, like muffled drums or the words of the death sentence.

  那句话在我耳朵里就像敲着闷鼓，如同被宣判了死刑。

• with 「blue nights」, named for the intense and portentous beauty of the dying light on a summer day, ms didion has translated the sad hum of her thoughts into a profound meditation on mortality.

  借着《忧郁的夜》，这部以某个夏日里生命之光暗淡时的那种紧张而又不吉之美命名的书，琼?迪丹将自己思维里悲伤的呻吟译成了对死亡深厚的沉思。

• one popular approach late in the era was to fashion portentous melodramas around a naked figure.who could complain about impropriety if the subject was martyrdom?

  而在维多利亚晚期一种普遍的办法是在一具裸露的躯体旁煞有介事地表演情景剧。

• one does not have to look back of the last century for the beginnings of the present complexities of trade and perplexities of commercial speculation, nor for the portentous birth of national debts.

  人们无需追溯到上一个世纪去探寻目前贸易上的复杂性和使人困惑的商业投机行为是怎样产生的，也无需这样做来了解国家公债是怎样奇异地诞生的。

• 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。

• now, after seeing a hundred invid ships anchored in fantomaspace, and with lang」s portentous whisperings in his ear, he found her, and the sight only served to double his dread.

  现在，当他看到一百艘因维战舰停靠在凡托玛空间，听到朗说出的那些不祥耳语之后，他终于找到了她，但这场面只是让他倍加担忧。

• a second portentous announcement, of the genome of mankind’s closest—albeit extinct—relative, neanderthal man, shows the power of biology 2.0 in a different way.

  第二个预示性的声明是，人类近亲尼安德特人（已灭绝）的基因组报告表明了生物2.0时代的强大。

• a portentous soufflé that never truly rises.

  一部自命不凡的杂凑，不可能真正成功。

相似词

black黑色的；黑人的；邪恶的

fated命中注定的，宿命的；受命运支配的

significant象征；有意义的事物

forbidding（外表）冷峻的，令人生畏的；令人厌恶的；险恶的

alarming使惊恐（alarm的ing形式）