Appalling
[ə'pɔːlɪŋ] or [ə'pɔlɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an experience that appalls; 'is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?'.
(adj.) causing consternation; 'appalling conditions' .
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解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appall
(a.) Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I, at least, was taken up with endeavouring to soothe Fifine; whose cries (for she had good lungs) were appalling to hear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He wheeled instantly and charged me with the most appalling speed I had ever beheld. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The lady abbess no sooner heard this appalling cry, than she retreated to her own bedroom, double-locked the door, and fainted away comfortably. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- What an appalling beau-costume he wears! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She deposited her appalling doubts in my hands; she relied on my judgment, and was comforted by my participation in her sorrow. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The death-rate was appalling and the labor conditions terrible. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here are the appalling consequences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What the methodically-minded do not see is that the sterility of a routine is far more appalling. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Who has laid such an appalling embargo on you? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- And of our misuse of the Rockefellers and Carnegies--the retrospect is appalling. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The dreadful condition to which he was brought, was so appalling to both of us, that we could not refer to it in plainer words. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He confessed his scampishness himself with the most appalling cynicism. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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