There was something portentous in his appearance.

他的外表有些不祥。

" To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, portentous" .

“对我来说，这似乎非常可怕、灾难性、不祥”。

The " cranks" were all rebels, and the list was portentous.

“疯子” 都是反叛者， 而且名单很不祥。

To Adams, Reeve's refusal seemed portentous.

对亚当斯来说， 里夫的拒绝似乎预示着不祥之兆。

He ran his eye down the pages, and his countenance grew portentous.

他的目光顺着书页扫过， 他的脸色变得不祥。

As Amy returned from her last trip, Mr. Davis gave a portentous " Hem" !

艾米上次旅行回来时，戴维斯先生不祥地“哼”了一声！

Mr. Bumble, catching at the inquiry very quickly, shook his head with portentous solemnity.

班布尔先生很快就明白了他的询问，带着不祥的庄严表情摇了摇头。

Next the loud mournful whistles, the portentous vibration and the boat, the human idea--is in motion.

接下来是响亮而悲伤的口哨声，不祥的振动和船，人类的想法——在运动。

Yet the four miles to the Creek are stirring, like the bleak, portentous beginning of a good tale.

然而，通往小溪的四英里路却在激荡， 就像一个美好故事的凄凉、不祥的开端。

(as in " burdened with making portentous decisions" ), which was added to our dictionary in 1934.

（如“承担着做出不祥的决定的负担” ），这些含义于 1934 年被添加到我们的词典中。

Both portent and portentous come from the Latin noun portentum, meaning " omen or sign" .

预兆和预兆都来自拉丁语名词portentum，意思是“预兆或迹象” 。

" I will tell you in your private ear, " replied she, wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy.

“我会在你耳边告诉你，”她回答说，带着不祥的意味摇了摇头巾三下。

'Ah, call me not that, ' he said, with a flourish of his fat hands, regaining immediately his portentous flippancy.

“啊，别那样叫我， ” 他说着，挥舞着他那双胖手， 立即恢复了他那不祥的轻率。

The color rose and fell like a beckoning hand, and, Indian-like, he immediately attached some portentous meaning to the unusual sight.

颜色像一只招手一样起伏， 而且，像印第安人一样， 他立即给这不寻常的景象赋予了某种不祥的意义。

His bathroom, in contrast to the rather portentous character of his bedroom, was gay, bright, extremely habitable and even faintly facetious.

他的浴室，与他卧室的相当不祥的性格形成鲜明对比，是快乐的，明亮的，非常适合居住，甚至有点滑稽。

As the monkey looked back across the Baltic from the safe battlements of Stockholm, Russia looked more portentous than from the Kremlin.

当这只猴子从斯德哥尔摩安全的城垛上回头看波罗的海时，俄罗斯看起来比从克里姆林宫看更不祥。

Tom drew an hour–glass with a full moon and straw limbs to it and armed the spreading fingers with a portentous fan.

汤姆画了一个带有满月和稻草四肢的沙漏， 并用一把不祥的扇子武装张开的手指。

And Mary Boyne, sitting face to face with its portentous silence, felt the futility of seeking to break it by any human means.

而玛丽·博因（Mary Boyne）与它预兆般的沉默面对面坐着，她感到试图用任何人类手段打破它是徒劳的。

Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.

在这些动机中，首先是那条大鲸，叫人一想起就没法按捺得下自己。这样一个可怕而神秘的怪物激起了我所有的猎奇心。

This proved a portentous metaphor because returning from my daily run I opened the front door and found myself in need of a boat.

事实证明，这是一个不祥的隐喻，因为我每天跑步回来，打开前门，发现自己需要一艘船。