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portentous

音標[p?:'tent?s] 讀音

漢語翻譯


a. 前兆的, 不吉的, 可驚的, 自大

詞型變化:

名詞:portentousness 副詞:porten-tously 

英文解釋:

形容詞 portentous:

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

例句:

  1. I see a portentous thing to come.
    我預感不祥的事情要來到了。

詳細解釋:


por.ten.tous

adj.(形容詞)
Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding:
預示凶事的;不祥的:
例句:
.The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.(Edward Bellamy)
.現在的社會預示著重大變革的發生.(愛德華·貝拉米)

Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe:
怪異的;奇特的和敬畏的:
例句:
.Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.(Herman Melville)
.這樣奇特而神秘的巨怪引起我強烈興趣.(赫爾曼·梅爾維爾)

Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
自負的;自命不凡的

【引伸】
porten.tously
adv.(副詞)
porten.tousness
n.(名詞)

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