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."

在一封几乎是预兆的信中，她的母亲写道：“你过着放荡的生活，我希望我不会活着看到可能发生的灾难。”

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，就听见楼下突然传音乐声，仿佛是压缩的热气突然爆发出的一样。我们听出那是门德尔松的《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的询问，带着不祥的庄严表情摇了摇头。

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

次旅行回时，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.

他的目光顺着书页扫过， 他的脸色变得不祥。

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

“对我，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的指责，否则我们恐怕要开始讲汽车话题了。那里应该加个庄严的音效，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， 北方的春天比热带或亚热带的春天更凶， 因为寒冷与温暖、冰冻不育与炎热肥沃的对比更为明显。

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.

些威风凛凛的副校长和受托人竟然是他在哈佛认识的“最优秀的人”的父亲，在他看是不协调的。

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。

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

当只猴子从斯德哥尔摩安全的城垛回头看波罗的海时，俄罗斯看起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。

" 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， ” 他着，挥舞着他那双胖手， 立即恢复了他那不祥的轻率。

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。

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

是御剑干的——理查德·洛弗尔·御剑，我们的意思是，那个不祥的讨厌鬼。

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。样一个可怕而神秘的怪物激起了我所有的猎奇心。

" 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.

“我找到了她住的地方，”他用一种不祥的半耳语宣布道，使得位工作中的侦探成为了他的同胞们的标志。