查询词典 portentous

Somehow, in ''Trading Up,'' this passage registers as authentically portentous.

不知怎的，在《向上爬》中，这一段话像谶语一样应验了。

He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm.

他热情彭湃地介绍着每个怪异的话题。

Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather than 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。

The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent on that unknown man.

康布罗纳找到的滑铁卢的那个字，正如鲁日·德·李勒①构思的《马赛曲》，都是出自上天的启示。

One does not have to look back of the last century for the beginnings of the present complexities of trade and perplexities of commercial speculation, nor for the portentous birth of national debts.

人们无需追溯到上一个世纪去探寻目前贸易上的复杂性和使人困惑的商业投机行为是怎样产生的，也无需这样做来了解国家公债是怎样奇异地诞生的。

Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting.

癞哈蟆对这种异常严肃而又吉凶莫测的欢迎方式感到忐忑不安。

A reporter of the old school , McKelway was never portentous and rarely judgmental.

一个影响你的朋友是"夫子"，而老婆则是厨子（即使当着老婆面，他们也这么叫）。

When the scientists she interviews speak in their portentous fashion of "playing God" they really mean that "God" is meaningless and that they can both do what the market demands and what they damn well please.

接受作者采访的科学家们做出了"扮演上帝"的样子。当他们自命不凡地侃侃而谈的时候，他们的真实意思是说"上帝"没有意义，而他们则既能满足市场需求，也能让他们自己非常满足。

Under the portentous slate-gray sky, especially behind the faces

在暗示性的灰兰色天空下，特别是在人们

Certainly, The Hearts of Age is willfully opaque, consisting primarily of ham-fistedly portentous images and visual non-sequiturs.

当然，The Hearts of Age的意义并不确凿，它首先是又一系列滑稽的预示性镜头组成，看起来不怎么有前后逻辑。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。