portentous的中文翻譯是什麼意思

portentous

US/pɔːrˈtentəs/
UK/pɔːˈtentəs/

adj. 預兆的; 凶兆的; 自命不凡的; 裝腔作勢的

portentous柯林斯釋義

ADJ-GRADED(指說話、寫作或舉止)自命不凡的,裝腔作勢的

If someone's way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people.

  • There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.

    他一點也不裝腔作勢或故作嚴肅,渾身散發著幽默。

  • ...portentous prose.

    矯揉的散文

ADJ-GRADED預示未來的;影響重大的

Something that is portentous is important in indicating or affecting future events.

  • In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous...

    同樣從社會政治學上看,城市對20世紀思想、文化的貢獻也意義重大。

  • Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.

    眾多事關重大的抉擇強加在了他身上。

portentous英文釋義

Adjective

1. of momentous or ominous significance;

  • such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
  • a prodigious vision

2. of ominous significance

    3. puffed up with vanity;

    • a grandiloquent and boastful manner
    • overblown oratory
    • a pompous speech
    • pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

    portentous場景例句

    Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.

    眾多事關重大的抉擇強加在了他身上。

    Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

    在我面前展現出一條新的十年的凶多吉少 、 咄咄逼人的道路.

    There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.

    他一點也不裝腔作勢或故作嚴肅,渾身散發著幽默。

    Its consequences were historically portentous.

    其後果具有重大的歷史影響.

    Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather then pedantic and portentous.

    無論如何, 要使它顯得很隨便, 甚至滑稽可笑, 而不要顯得很迂腐,夜郎自大.

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    portentous詞性變形

    portentouslyportentousness