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" !

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·威尔斯宣布外星地球这一不祥消息时，美国民众陷了恐慌。

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。

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。

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

这是御剑干的——理查德·洛弗尔·御剑，我们的意思是，那个不祥的讨厌鬼。

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，类的想法——在运动。

To Adams, Reeve's refusal seemed portentous.

对亚当斯来说， 里夫的拒绝示着不祥之兆。

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。

Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights.

它的不祥的名词和动词给平凡的事件赋予了高度的冒险精神。高管们走在墨粉盒之间，打扮得像骑士。

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

兆和兆都来自拉丁语名词portentum，意思是“兆或迹象” 。

" 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的轻率。

(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。

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。