awful
常考释义
1.(informal)很坏的；极讨厌的very bad or unpleasant
That's an awful colour.那颜色难看得很。
‘They didn't even offer to pay.’ ‘Oh that's awful.’“他们甚至不主动付钱。”“哦，那真不像话。”
It's awful, isn't it?糟糕透了，不是吗？
The weather last summer was awful.刚过去的夏季天气真坏。
I feel awful about forgetting her birthday.我忘了她的生日，感到很过意不去。
to look/feel awful(= to look/feel ill)面带病容；感到很不舒服
There's an awful smell in here.这里有股很难闻的味道。
The awful thing is, it was my fault.糟糕的是，这是我的过失。
2.(informal)非常的；很多的；过多的used to emphasize sth, especially that there is a large amount or too much of sth
It's going to cost an awful lot of money.这要花非常多的钱。
There's not an awful lot of room.没有很多的空间。
I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday.我觉得身体比昨天好得多了。
I had an awful job persuading him to come(= it was very difficult) .说服他来真是费劲死了。
3.骇人听闻的；可怕的very shocking
the awful horrors of war骇人听闻的战争恐怖情形
1.(informal)非常；极其very; extremely
Clint is awful smart.克林特机灵极了。
It's hard to disappoint them. When my grades even begin to drop at all, I feel as though I've failed. It's an awful feeling.
令他们失望是不好受的。我的分数哪怕刚有点下降，我就会觉得好像自己已经失败了，那种感觉非常可怕。
If that hill didn't change its shape on bad nights there would be an awful steamboat grave-yard around here inside of a year.
如果在视线不好的夜间那座山没有变化外形，那个地方一年内一定会出现一个蒸汽船的坟场。
He felt that this silence was God's judgment; that all creation had been stilled before the just and awful wrath of God.
他感到，这沉寂就是上帝的审判，天地万物在公正而可怕的神谴面前变得寂静无声。
He's improved an awful lot over the last few years and I know I'm not the only one who thinks that.
他在过去的几年中取得了相当惊人的进步，我知道我不是唯一这么想的人。
It's an awful thing to live in the dark, unable to see what others take for granted.
生活在黑暗之中，看不见别人习以为常的美好事物，是可怕的事情。
She looked up at him quickly, but he was ready for her. He had banished from his face the awful despair that he carried in his soul.
她马上地抬起眼来看着他，可他已经做好准备，脸上不再表现出隐藏心中那可怕的绝望。
She said she had a sore throat and was feeling awful.
她说她嗓子疼，而且感觉很难受。
THE dramatic $2-a-share rescue of Bear Stearns was, almost everyone agreed at the time, the best way out of an awful situation.
以每股2美元的戏剧性价格救贝尔史登公司于水火，这几乎是当时所有人都赞同的最佳出路了。
He remembered uneasily the awful glow of her skin and the distracting clarity of her eyes.
他心绪不安地回想起她那特别光润的皮肤和晶莹迷人的眼睛。
i ' m ashamed to say this , but i was in a rock band and we were really awful , but a fun thing for me to do.
我很惭愧说这个，当我们在摇滚乐队的时候确实很可怕，但对我来说是件非常有趣的事情。
When I get phlegm in my throat, no matter how much I cough, I can't clear my throat and it 's all awful feeling .
当我喉咙有痰时，不管我咳多久，也不能清出来，感觉很不舒服。
I used to hear stories of awful tragedies and think of all the reasons it could never happen to me.
以前，我读着那些可怕的悲剧，根本想象不到有任何理由这些事情会发生在我的身上。
Dane buried his head in his hands. "Floria and I have been all over the galaxy. I've met so many beings. He's one in a line of awful ones. "
Dane用手臂抱住头，“我和Floria去过银河系很多地方，见过无数的人，他给我的印象很差，我得仔细想想。”
To be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with Him is a foretaste of Heaven!
总之，剩下一人而没有神同在，是太凄凉的事；剩下一人而有主同在的话，是预尝天上的光景！
My mother carried on something awful. She wanted me to put it away in the savings bank out of reach of temptation.
我妈妈看上去有点担心，她让我把钱存进银行里，以防我被诱惑。
He got to his feet, swaying from stiffness, trying to shake off sleep and that awful dream.
他站到地上，身子僵硬得东摇西晃，一心想把睡意和那个恶梦赶掉。
"I guess I'll not try to go out to-day, " he said to Carrie at breakfast. "It's going to be awful bad, so the papers say. "
“我想我今天就不出去了，”早饭时，他对嘉莉说。“天气将会很糟，报纸上这么说的。”
Suddenly he said: "My dear Victor, what is the matter with you? Are you ill? Has something awful happened? "
他突然说道：“我亲爱的维克多，你怎么啦？你生病了吗？发生了什么可怕的事情了吗？”
words : This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression .
别拐弯抹角了：这看起来极像是第二次大萧条的前兆。
Well. But I hope we won't get lost. It would be so awful! " and the girl shuddered at the thought of the dreadful possibilities. "
“行是行，不过但愿别再迷了路。真是要命！”小姑娘一想到前途未卜，不禁打了个寒颤。
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