portentous中文什么意思

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。
+更多解释...4.〔蔑称〕自命不凡的；妄自尊大的。adv.
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例句与用法

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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。

英文释义

形容词

1. 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
2. ominously prophetic
   同义词：fateful, foreboding
3. of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
   同义词：prodigious