Dire
['daɪə]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
(superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
錄入:赛斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Dreadful, fearful, direful, shocking, terrible, horrid, horrible, awful, terrific, tremendous.
整理:罗拉
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DREADFUL]
弗恩手打
解釋/意思:
adj. dreadful: calamitous in a high degree—(poet.) Dire′ful.—adv. Dire′fully.—n. Dire′fulness.
卡蜜拉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He was roused from a meditation on these dire imaginings by the sudden appearance of two figures at a turn of the lane. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation: Bust me, if she ain't at it agin! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Kala punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took notice and warned and threatened; but all to no avail. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He only seemed to contrast his present cheerfulness and felicity with the dire endurance that was over. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Pile dirge on dirge; rouse the funereal chords; let the air ring with dire wailing; let wild discord rush on the wings of the wind! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Vase am I, she thought, vase brimful of despair's direst essence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
編輯:史蒂夫