英 [pɔːˈtentəsnəs] 美 [pɔːrˈtentəsnəs]
n. 凶兆;预兆;自负
凶兆(portentousness), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
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.
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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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.