1.糟糕透顶的;讨厌的;令人不快的very bad or unpleasant
What dreadful weather!多么讨厌的天气!
What a dreadful thing to say!话说得太难听了!
It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.他们对待雇员的方式糟糕透了。
How dreadful!多讨厌啊!
Jane looked dreadful(= looked ill or tired) .简看上去脸色很不好。
2.[obn](强调糟糕的程度)极其的,极坏的used to emphasize how bad sth is
She's making a dreadful mess of things.她把事情搞得一塌糊涂。
I'm afraid there's been a dreadful mistake.恐怕是出了大错。
3.[ubn]可怕的;令人畏惧的;使人痛苦的causing fear or suffering
a dreadful accident可怕的事故
They suffered dreadful injuries.他们严重受伤。
It was a dreadful day, but it is also a day that will remain, I believe, a symbol of the enduring bravery of the British people.
那是一个可怕的日子,但我认为,那同时也永远是一个象征英国人民大无畏精神的日子。
IT HAS been a dreadful week in Kashmir, the bloodiest yet in two decades of uprisings against Indian rule.
本周对于喀什米尔来说,有如梦魇。这场暴乱,是20年以来,抗击印度法规最为血腥的一次事件。
Such a speech made sense politically, too: it was shrewd to emphasise just how dreadful a mess he is inheriting from his predecessor.
这样一场演讲同样具有政治意义。奥巴马精明的强调到他从上一任总统布什手里接过的是一个一团糟的烂摊子。
The present law, as it now stood, had been instituted by the wisdom of their fathers, to check the alarming progress of a dreadful crime.
现行的法律是前辈智慧的结晶,目的在于制止一种骇人听闻的罪行恶性发展。
They began to talk of what a dreadful storm it had been the night before.
他们开始谈及前天晚上有多么可怕的暴风雨。
The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and to heighten the matter, I found her alone.
不过,看见你亲爱的妹妹,确实叫我害怕。而我单独与她见面,更是火上添油。
After such a dreadful experience, you'd think I'd be ready to give her back.
经过了这样儿的经历之后,你一定会觉得我们已经准备把她送回去。
But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.
但这都是徒劳无益的,我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。
"Dreadful deadly spasms" of cerebral palsy shot their way from his cranium to his spine and into his feet.
脑瘫所产生的“致命般的极度痉挛”从他的头颅贯穿到脊椎,最后达至脚跟。
I did not realize then what dreadful events were soon to happen, and that this happy and peaceful year was to be the calm before the storm.
但我并不知道可怕事情快要发生了,而这些幸福快乐日子不过是风暴前夕的平静而已。
There was rising in him a dreadful uneasiness ; something very precious thathe wanted to hold seemed close to destruction.
他心里涌起一种难言的焦灼,因为他原来一直想保住的东西现在好象要毁灭了。
It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning.
你知道,那是个特别潮湿的夏天,平常年头,那地方安全得很,没想到却毫无征兆地出了事。
As a young person and a product of our bilingual education, my view is that Chinese is not a dreadful language to BE avoided at all costs.
我本身是受双语教育的年轻人,对这课题的看法是:华文绝不是洪水猛兽。
But he tells it as if it were still a dreadful thing.
但是他讲述的时候仿佛这仍是件很可怕的事。
I felt that I had got to put an end to that dreadful noise.
我深感有必要结束那折磨人的噪音。
Without it, a man will feel that his ill fate has taken charge of him and the world is utterly dark and dreadful.
没有它,一个人会觉得他的悲惨命运主宰了他,世界完全是黑暗的和可怕的。
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage . . . to use the word "bad" would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
60年代我结婚了,用“糟糕透了”这个词都不足以形容简直是糟糕极了。
Dreadful as it was, she was conscious of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses.
此情此景虽然可怕,但她却感到这数以千计的旁观者的存在倒是一种庇护。
There had been a dreadful accident and every one in the train had been killed.
会发生一场可怕的事故,火车上的每个人都会丧生。
There was rising in him a dreadful uneasiness ; something very precious that he wanted to hold seemed close to destruction.
他心中涌起了一丝糟糕的不安情绪,他想要拥有的非常宝贵的东西好像就要毁灭了。
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