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In social politics , too , the city 's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous

同样从社会政治学上看，城市对20世纪思想、文化的贡献也意义重大。

Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen .

众多事关重大的抉择强加在了他身上。

There was nothing portentous or solemn about him . He was bubbling with humour .

他一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃，浑身散发着幽默。

Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting .

癞哈蟆对这种异常严肃而又吉凶莫测的欢迎方式感到忐忑不安。

The present aspect of society is portentous of great change .

现在的社会预示着重大变革的发生。

unless they 're especially portentous . Do you know what that word means ?

除非梦境特别凶你知道那个字的意思吧？

The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity .

报告里有很多地方预兆性地提到了将来的环境灾难。

The portentous way in which he wrote his name .

他签名时那副矜夸的样子。

His essay is perhaps a little portentous .

他的文章也许有些矫揉矜持。

He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm .

他热情彭湃地介绍着每个怪异的话题。

Certainly . Why else the portentous threat ?

当然了否则为什么放出威胁

A portentous sign or event ; an omen .

预兆，异兆有预兆性的现象或事件；征兆。

But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture 's midst .

可是，这种种想象最终都在这张图画中间那种可怖的什么东西上碰了壁。

Keep it , in any case , familiar , facetious even , rather than pedantic and portentous .

无论如何，要使它显得很随便，甚至滑稽可笑，而不要显得很迂腐，夜郎自大。

Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity .

这样一个可怕而神秘的怪物激起了我所有的猎奇心。

Answer : workshop worker can hide below car , machine tool and loftier equipment , not portentous fluster runs .

答：车间工人可以躲在车、机床及较高大的设备下，不可惊慌乱跑。

Its consequences were historically portentous .

其后果具有重大的历史影响。

The timing is portentous .

这一时机的选择耐人寻味。

His eyebrows , which had been in the highest degree portentous , smoothed their rugged bristling aspect , and became serene ;

他的眉毛原先极为不祥地紧皱着，现在不再直直地竖立，而是舒展开来，安祥平静；

The paper confirms that the ocean is exquisitely sensitive to small variations in the earth 's temperature - a portentous finding , given that human emissions are inducing a large temperature rise .

该论文确认，海洋对地球温度的微小变化非常敏感——鉴于人类排放在导致温度大幅上升，这个发现令人担忧。

Hoping this was an isolated incident , I spent that night awake , searching for more of her portentous advice , finding instance after instance of her wisdom come to fruition .

希望这只是一个个别的事件，那一晚我一直清醒着，在脑海中搜索母亲更多的预言性的建议，发现她的智慧的预言一件一件地变为现实。

One does not have to look back of the last century for the beginnings of the present complexities of trade and perplexities of commercial speculation , nor for the portentous birth of national debts .

人们无需追溯到上一个世纪去探寻目前贸易上的复杂性和使人困惑的商业投机行为是怎样产生的，也无需这样做来了解国家公债是怎样奇异地诞生的。

The Raelians are a small group , chiefly Canadian and French , founded by one Claude Vorilhon , who now goes by the more portentous handle of " Rael " .

拉耶尔教派是一小拨人，主要成员是加拿大人和法国人，是由一个叫克罗德-沃利亚的人创立的，如今他以显得更能预示未来的“拉耶尔”作为自己的名字。

The Doctor was sitting in his portentous study , with a globe at each knee , books all round him , Homer over the door , and Minerva on the mantel-shelf .

博士坐在他的奇特的书房中，每只膝盖上摆着一个地球仪，四周都是书籍，荷马①在门的上面，米涅瓦②在壁炉架上。

According to exhaust temperature T ,Δ p and Δ H parameters under the open thermodynamic system the running condition of the 2-stroke marine diesel engine is inspected to realize the real time supervision for combustion , running and failure portentous of diesel engine .

根据进排气温度T，Δp和ΔH等参数，按照热力学开口系统考察船用二冲程柴油机运行工况，实现对柴油机的燃烧、运行和故障前兆现象的实时监控。