Awful
['ɔːfʊl] or ['ɔfl]
解释:
(adj.) causing fear or dread or terror; 'the awful war'; 'an awful risk'; 'dire news'; 'a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked'; 'the dread presence of the headmaster'; 'polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was'; 'a dreadful storm'; 'a fearful howling'; 'horrendous explosions shook the city'; 'a terrible curse' .
尤妮斯录入--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
(a.) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
(a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
(a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
(a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
希勒尔录入
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.[2]. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.[3]. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.
吉米编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful, horrible, solemn,portentous, horrific
ANT:Inocuous, informidable, unimposing, unastonishing, commonplace, unnoticeable,unalarming, alluring
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例句:
- Why, George, this state of mind is awful; it's getting really desperate George. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It's awful dirty. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It was an awful existence. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- As the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out on the air, like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- There remained this way, this awful African process, to be fulfilled. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs which yawned at her throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- That unconscious appeal, so touching and so awful in the sacredness of her sleep, ran through me like fire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Bl?nc, in awful majesty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- There was a moment of awful suspense as the procession waited for the Honourable Samuel Slumkey to step into his carriage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It is impossible for me to write the awful word, which is here represented by a blank. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- My name, said he, is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I was awful nigh bursting out a laughing though, when it made John stare! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Oh, Lily, what an awful life you'll lead! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Let me die, dear Lord, don't let me see that awful face again. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The last of the evening light was fading away; and over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Except for the awful thing you've gotten into. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In a strange uplift of elation she saw him, the being never to be revealed, awful in its potency, mystic and real. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Those last four boys were awful. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- My De-ar, this is becoming Awful--' her father was emphatically beginning: when she stopped him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Oh, how awful! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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