1. The president alone betokened the national identity. 总统一人就代表了国家形象。
2. He gave her a kiss that betokened his affection. 他给她一个表示爱的吻。
3. He addressed a few angry words to her that betokened hostility. 他对她说了几句预示敌意的愤怒的话。
4. His thin face, deeply furrowed by care, and the bold outline of his strongly marked features, betokened a man more accustomed to exercise his mental faculties than his physical strength. 他那神色疲惫的脸上刻满了忧虑的皱纹，再加上他那个性坚毅的轮廓，一望便知他是一个惯于劳心而少劳力的人。
5. This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened , it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath. 把良心和一件无关紧要的事情病态地联系在一起，恐怕并不能说明真心实意的忏悔，其背后可能有些颇值怀疑和极其荒谬的东西。
