单词乎

portentous

音标[pɒ:'tentәs]

汉语翻译

a. 前兆的, 不吉的, 可惊的, 自大的

词型变化

名词:portentousness 副词:porten-tously 

英语解释

形容词 portentous:

  1. of momentous or ominous significance
    同义词:prodigious
  2. ominously prophetic
    同义词:fateful, foreboding
  3. puffed up with vanity- Newsweek
    同义词:grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical

例句

  1. I see a portentous thing to come.
    我预感不祥的事情要来到了。

详细解释


por.ten.tous

adj.(形容词)
Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding:
预示凶事的;不祥的:
例句:
.The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.(Edward Bellamy)
.现在的社会预示着重大变革的发生.(爱德华·贝拉米)

Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe:
怪异的;奇特的和敬畏的:
例句:
.Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.(Herman Melville)
.这样奇特而神秘的巨怪引起我强烈的兴趣.(赫尔曼·梅尔维尔)

Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
自负的;自命不凡的

【引伸】
porten.tously
adv.(副词)
porten.tousness
n.(名词)

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