A malignant stone growth on the Maine landscape. The moon hangs low and baleful in a dead sky. The headlight of a PASSING TRAIN cuts through the night. 缅因州的大地上长着一块邪恶的石头,不祥的月亮在死寂般的天空中低垂着,一列疾驶的火车亮着前灯穿过黑夜。
Yet the78- year-old ex-paratrooper, who made it into the2002 presidential run-off against Jacques Chirac, still wields a baleful influence over the body politic. 可这个78岁的前伞兵,曾经在2002年总统大选与希拉克决斗的勒庞,仍就在单政府领导的国家中有着极大的杀伤力。
At the bottom of such disquietude, at the end of your nightmares, there forever lurks the shadowy presence of this friend with his angry frown and baleful looks: no, you can never forget him. 在你惶恐的深处、魇的尽头,隐隐约约,永远潜伏着这位朋友的怒眉和冷眼,不,你永远忘不了他。
baleful
[ adj ]
deadly or sinister
<adj.all> the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
<adj.all> a baleful look forbidding thunderclouds his tone became menacing ominous rumblings of discontent sinister storm clouds a sinister smile his threatening behavior ugly black clouds the situation became ugly
Baleful \Bale"ful\ (b[=a]l"f[.u]l), a. [AS. bealoful. See {Bale} misery.] 1. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive. ``Baleful enemies.'' --Shak.
Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. --Milton.
2. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]
And while the conflict also puts a strain on India's public finance and on politics in India, Pakistan is a much smaller country and less able to contain its baleful effects.
His Ariel is glacial, ponderous, even baleful.
In its most recent editions, the German magazine Stern painted a baleful picture of desperation, suicides, mysterious deaths and extortion among Soviet troops in Germany.
California water policy has been seeking a new direction since the 1982 referendum defeat of the Peripheral Canal, an extension of the State Water Project (a less baleful but also mammoth version of the Bureau of Reclamation).
This summer in Oka, a baleful standoff has been maintained, the Mohawks entrenched behind their blockade at the top of a hill on the town's main street, the police at the bottom of the slope in scattered groups behind concrete barriers.
She and bass Matti Salminen as the baleful Hagen dominated the stage and easily penetrated even the cruelest waves of sound that Wagner _ and the Met orchestra _ could provide.
Initially six feet of baleful loom, in a rectangular don't-mess-with-me suit and improbably black hair and beetle-brows, he soon melts into a kind of blinking benevolence in his old stamping-ground.