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这里为大家介绍下portentous 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ pɔ:"tentəs ]

中英文翻译

adj.

1.预兆的；不吉的。

2.可惊的，怪异的；奇特的；可怕的。

3.〔戏谑语〕(沉默等)严肃的。

4.〔蔑称〕自命不凡的；妄自尊大的。

adv.

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puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

同义词：grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical,

ominously prophetic

同义词：fateful, foreboding,

of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"

同义词：prodigious,

例句与用法

1.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。

2.Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting .

癞哈蟆对这种异常严肃而又吉凶莫测的欢迎方式感到忐忑不安。

3.Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather than 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。

4.He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm

他热情彭湃地介绍着每个怪异的话题。

5.I see a portentous thing to come

我预感不祥的事情要来到了。

6.Unless they " re especially portentous . do you know what that word means

.除了很不吉利之外.你知道那些话是什么意思吗

7.. . . unless they " re especially portentous . do you know what that word means

. . .除了很不吉利之外.你知道那些话是什么意思吗

8.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。

9.The moment he became vice - president of the united states felt somewhat less portentous

由于他被推选为美国副总统缺乏足够的预示性，所以令民众颇感意外。

10.I will tell you in your private ear , replied she , wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy

“我会私下告诉你的， ”她答道，意味深长地把头巾甩了三下。

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