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portentousness是什么意思

2024-01-05 09:40:17
portentousness
美[pɔːrtentəs]  英[pɔːtentəs]
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
  1. of momentous or ominous significance;

    "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity" "a prodigious vision"

  2. ominously prophetic
  3. 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.)
  1. 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。
  2. I see a portentous thing to come.我预感不祥的事情要来到了。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。