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

他身上一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃。他幽默十足。

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

从社会政治学上看，该市对20世纪思想、文化的贡献也同样意义重大。

A portentous souffle that never truly rises.

一部自命不凡的杂凑，不可能真正成功。

There are flaws, of course (and not just the portentous title).

当然，小说中也有瑕疵（还不只是那个怪异的书名）。

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。

Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.

这样奇特而神秘的巨怪引起我强烈的兴趣。

Europe's leaders plan a jamboree in Berlin that will issue a portentous declaration.

欧洲领导人计划在柏林举行盛大庆典，并发表一项重要的预示性宣言。

The words always had a portentous sound in my ears, like muffled drums or the words of the death sentence.

那句话在我耳朵里就像敲着闷鼓，如同被宣判了死刑。

The portentous Thinker I placed on the edge of the cupboard so that he looked down at the bath towel and waited for it to slip.

那个怪异的思考者，我把它放到了橱柜边缘，这样他好象在朝下盯着那条浴巾，等待着它掉下来。

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。

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。

But for me, the surest laughs came from the portentous percussion in Carter Burwell's wonderful underscoring; it pile-drives an expectation of suspense that the film never delivers.

对我来说，真正的笑声是来自Carter Burwell装腔作势的打击乐器，这样的配乐传递出影像并没有达到的对悬念的期待。

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。