portentous
英式音标：portentous怎么读
美式音标：portentous怎么读
词汇归类： GRE,畅通词汇
近义词： fated,significant,forbidding,alarming
portentous词义
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adj. 不祥的；预兆的；令人惊讶的
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副词: portentously;名词: portentousness;
中文词源
portentous 坏的预兆的
来自portent,恶兆，凶兆，-ous,形容词后缀。
portentous双语例句
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- 1. Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.
- 众多事关重大的抉择强加在了他身上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. 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.
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- 3. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.
- 同样从社会政治学上看，城市对20世纪思想、文化的贡献也意义重大。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
- 在我面前展现出一条新的十年的凶多吉少 、 咄咄逼人的道路.
来自英汉文学 - 盖茨比
- 5. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.
- 他一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃，浑身散发着幽默。
来自辞典例句
portentous英文词源
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- portentous (adj.)
- 1540s, from Latin portentosus "monstrous, marvelous, threatening," from portentem "portent" (see portend). Related: Portentously.
portentous实用场景例句
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- Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.
- 众多事关重大的抉择强加在了他身上。
柯林斯例句
- Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
- 在我面前展现出一条新的十年的凶多吉少 、 咄咄逼人的道路.
英汉文学 - 盖茨比
- There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.
- 他一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃，浑身散发着幽默。
辞典例句
- Its consequences were historically portentous.
- 其后果具有重大的历史影响.
辞典例句
- 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.
辞典例句
- 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 )
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- I portentous thing to come.
- 我预感不祥的事情要来到了.
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- These writers paint a portentous picture.
- 这些经济作者勾勒出一幅奇特的画面.
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- He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm.
- 他热情彭湃地介绍着每个怪异的话题.
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- Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs.
- 答: 车间工人可以躲在车 、 机床及较高大的设备下, 不可惊慌乱跑.
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