portentous 详细解释

portentous

[pɔ:'tentəs]

adj.前兆的, 不吉的, 可怕的, 煞有介事的,自命不凡的

a.

1. 预兆的, 预示的; 影响未来的

Its consequences were historically portentous.

其后果具有重大的历史影响。

2. 凶兆的, 不祥的

3. 令人畏惧的, 令人惊讶的

4. 自命不凡的, 矜持的

词形变化

副词: porten-tously | 名词: portentousness |

词义辨析

同义参见:

fated  significant  forbidding  black  alarming  

英英释义

形容词 portentous:

of momentous or ominous significance

同义词：prodigious

ominously prophetic

同义词：fateful, foreboding

puffed up with vanity- Newsweek

同义词：grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

补充

portentousportentous英:[pɔ:ˈtentəs] 美:[pɔrˈtɛntəs, por-]adj.1.预兆的, 凶兆的2.自命不凡的, 装腔作势的

例句

1. portentous choices were forced on him.很多事关重大的选择被强加在他的身上。 2. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.他没有丝毫自命不凡或严肃冷峻, 而是充满幽默感。 3. portentous prose矫揉造作的散文 4. the envelope and its portentous contents.那个信封及其预示性的内容。 5. the author's portentous moralizings.作者自命不凡的说教。 6. a portentous dream/event不祥的梦/事件 7. a portentous manner/tone装腔作势的态度/语调

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