portentous
英:[pɔ:ˈtentəs] 美: [pɔrˈtentəs]
portentous 基本解释
adj.预兆的;凶兆的;自命不凡的;装腔作势的
英英释义
portentous[ pɔ:'tentəs, 'pəu- ]
adj.of momentous or ominous significance"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"
同义词:prodigious
ominously prophetic同义词:fatefulforeboding(a)
puffed up with vanity同义词:grandiloquentoverblownpompouspontifical
portentous 相关例句
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)- 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。
权威例句
Portentous pinball."Portentous Somethings": Melville's Typee and the Language of CaptivityPortentous Birds Flying West: On the Mesopotamian Origin of Homeric Bird-Divination*Infrared radiation portentous characteristics of rock burst in roadwayOf Humans and Other Portentous Beings: On Primo Levi’sStorie naturaliInteratrial block: a prevalent, widely neglected, and portentous abnormality.An Amazing and Portentous Summer: Environmental and Social Responses in Britain to the 1783 Eruption of an Iceland VolcanoThe internet and its wireless extensions in Japan: the portentous interface between chaos and orderA case of Crohn's disease limited to the appendix, showing a portentous ultrasonographic findingDISTRIBUTION OF MICROSEISMIC SIGNAL AND DISCRIMINATION OF PORTENTOUS INFORMATION OF PILLAR TYPE ROCKBURST