In an almost portentous letter, her mother wrote: " You lead a dissipated life, I hope I shall not live to see the disaster that is likely to ensue."

在一封几乎预兆信中，她母亲写道：“你过着放荡生活，我希望我不会活着看到可能发生灾难。”

As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.

汤姆一拿起话筒，就听见楼下突然传来音乐声，仿佛热气突然爆发出来一样。我们听出那门德尔松《婚礼进行曲》，仿佛预示着什么。

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询问，带着不祥庄严表情摇了摇头。

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！

When Orson Welles made the portentous announcement that aliens had invaded Earth, Americans panicked.

当奥森·威尔斯宣布外星人入侵地球这一不祥消息时，美国民陷入了恐慌。

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

他目光顺着书页扫过， 他脸色变得不祥。

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

“对我来说，这似乎非常可怕、灾难性、不祥”。

I think, unless you can do a better job than me of insulating me from accusations of hypocrisy, I think we're about to do a motoring topic We should have a portentous sound effect there, Keith.

我认为，除非你能比我更好地让我免受自相矛盾指责，否则我们恐怕要开始讲汽车话题了。那里应该加个庄严音效，基思。

It is generally believed that the northern spring is more portentous than the tropical or sub-tropical spring, because the contrast between cold and warmth, between frozen sterility and hot fertility is more apparent.

人们普遍认为， 北天比热带或亚热带天更凶， 因为寒冷与温暖、冰冻不育与炎热肥沃对比更为明显。

That these portentous vice-presidents and trustees should be actually the fathers of the " best men" he had known at Harvard seemed to him incongruous.

这些威风凛凛副校长和受托人竟然他在哈佛认识“最优秀人”父亲，这在他看来不协调。

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）与它预兆般沉默面对面坐着，她感到试图用任何人类手段打破它徒劳。

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城垛上回头看波罗海时，俄罗斯看起来比从克里姆林宫看更不祥。

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， 他立即给这不寻常景象赋予了某种不祥意义。

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

他浴室，与他卧室相当不祥性格形成鲜明对比，快乐，明亮，非常适合居住，甚至有点滑稽。

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

“我会私下悄悄告诉你，”她回答道，意味深长地摇了三次头巾。

'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轻率。

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

然而，通往小溪四英里路却在激荡， 就像一个美好故事凄凉、不祥开端。

This is Edgeworth's doing — Richard Lovell Edgeworth, we mean, the portentous bore.

这御剑干——理查德·洛弗尔·御剑，我们意思，那个不祥讨厌鬼。

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怪物激起了我所有猎奇心。

" I've found where she lives, " he announced in the portentous half-whisper that makes the detective at work a marked being to his fellow men.

“我找到了她住地，”他用一种不祥半耳语宣布道，这使得这位工作中侦探成为了他同胞们标志。