portentousness
基本解釋
- adj.前兆的;不吉的;可怕的;煞有介事的;自命不凡的
英漢例句
- There is powerful drama here, but too many of the scenes are handled with blunt portentousness rather than the subtlety a story as rich as this one deserves.
整部戲激情澎湃 ,但可惜的是,有不少場景處理得有些生硬而做作,缺少了如此豐富的故事情節(jié)所應該有的細膩。 - With nonsense verse, he demonstrated his unique world view, recorded the social situation of his time and displayed his objection to the Victorian seriousness and portentousness.
他用看似荒誕不經(jīng)毫無意義的詩行展示他看待世界的獨特視角,記述他所處時代的社會狀況,表現(xiàn)他對維多利亞時代做作風尚的反抗。 - Journalists take perfectly good stories and pump them full of air and portentousness with a view to winning a Pulitzer prize.
ECONOMIST: A less-than-great American novel - With great portentousness, one progressive group hacked ALEC.org and wikileaked a database of hundreds of model ALEC bills and published these to the Web.
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