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单词 portentous
释义
portentous
adjective
uk
/pɔːˈten.təs/us
/pɔːrˈten.t̬əs/
formaldisapproving
tooseriousandtryingto be veryimportant:
自命不凡的，自大的；装模作样的
Theproblemwith thebookis that it sometimesdescendsinto portentousphilosophizing.这本书的问题在于它有时陷入了自命不凡的高谈阔论。
literary
Portentousevents,statements, orsignsareimportantbecause they show that somethingunpleasantis verylikelytohappen:
预兆的，凶兆的
Thereportcontainsnumerousportentousreferencesto afutureenvironmentalcalamity.报告里有很多地方预兆性地提到了将来的环境灾难。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Showing arrogance and conceit
  • (as) proud as Luciferidiom
  • airs and gracesidiom
  • arrogant
  • arrogantly
  • as ifyouowned the placeidiom
  • dog
  • egocentric
  • egocentrically
  • egoistic
  • egomaniacal
  • overweening
  • overweeningly
  • patronize
  • patronizing
  • pomposity
  • talk down tosomeone
  • think the (whole) world revolves aroundyouidiom
  • throwyourweight aroundidiom
  • tin god
  • toffee-nosed
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Predicting things and intuition

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portentously
(Definition ofportentousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofportentous

portentous
The ratherportentoustitle of this book neatly describes its topics, except that the term ' postmodern ' is likely to mislead.
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Others are moreportentous: ' dementia care-giving is a demanding practice of consuming work in which both care-receiver and caregiver need careful tending' (p. 212).
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Here are one or two things—portentousthings—which have happened since then.
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A vista ofportentouspossibilities, of fateful possibilities, is opened before us.
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They followed one another at no great distance, and they contain what appears to be a mostportentouslist of protected occupations.
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We are told that this is aportentousand unprecedented change.
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Any document purporting to be about the future of broadcasting must beportentous, and in this case it is voluminous.
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I should have thought, with respect, that this ratherportentousstatement was, to put it mildly, a glimpse of the obvious.
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Why have there been these quiteportentouschanges?
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I wish to conclude by saying something which sounds a little pompous and a littleportentous, but it needs to be said.
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I think these figures are really mostportentousand alarming.
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I am thinking how they would have dwelt on theportentousprofits which were being made by the people who owned those ships.
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When allowance is made for all these things, what kind of residual yield is there likely to be from thisportentousoperation?
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He is to have the whole of this newportentousconstitutional machinery at his disposal.
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I find that in every part of the world, notably in the country which is producing films, they erectportentoustariffs against our goods.
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