portentous是什么意思
2024-02-01 11:10:17
portentous
adj. 前兆的；不吉的；可怕的；煞有介事的；自命不凡的
副词：portentously 名词：portentousness
近义词：significant，black，alarming，fated，forbidding，pompous，fateful，important，crucial，ominous，threatening，pretentious，self-important，haughty，arrogant，solemn，grave，serious，prodigious，grandiloquent，overblown，pontifical，foreboding，
英英释义
Adjective
- of momentous or ominous significance;
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity" "a prodigious vision"
- ominously prophetic
- puffed up with vanity;
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
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。