portentousness
基本解释
- adj.前兆的;不吉的;可怕的;煞有介事的;自命不凡的
英汉例句
- 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.
整部戏激情澎湃 ,但可惜的是,有不少场景处理得有些生硬而做作,缺少了如此丰富的故事情节所应该有的细腻。 - 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.
他用看似荒诞不经毫无意义的诗行展示他看待世界的独特视角,记述他所处时代的社会状况,表现他对维多利亚时代做作风尚的反抗。 - 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.
FORBES: The Next Big Protest: Leap Day Against the Dread Pirate Benko? - It has an energy and a portentousness that is uncommon among most modern science fiction films, which are far more concerned with aliens, robots and explosions.
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