portentous
🇬🇧/pɔːˈtentəs/ 🇺🇸/pɔːrˈtentəs/
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If someone's way of speaking, writing, or behaving is portentous, they speak, write, or behave more seriously than necessary because they want to impress other people. 自命不凡的; 装腔作势的
adjective [原级] 不祥的；预兆的；令人惊讶的
There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. 他身上一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃。他幽默十足。
来自portent(n. 预兆， 凶兆)
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- In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous. 从社会政治学上看，该市对20世纪思想、文化的贡献也同样意义重大。
- ...portentous prose. ...矫揉造作的散文。
- There are flaws, of course (and not just the portentous title). 当然，小说中也有瑕疵（还不只是那个怪异的书名）。
- "The difference is," he said portentously, "you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins." 他拿腔拿调地说道：“区别在于，你们是盎格鲁-撒克逊人，我们是拉丁人。”