他是一位脾气乖戾的老先生.He was a bilious old gentleman.那个性情乖戾的人对什么事都要找岔.The grumpy man found fault with everything.他的举止相当乖戾阴郁，令人望而生畏。He had a rather forbidding, saturnine manner....
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。Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.在我面前展现出...