查询词典 dreadful

The shelves of gift shops in every tourist attraction from John O' Groats to Jedburgh are stuffed full of dreadful tartan tat such as 'See-you-Jimmy' wigs and bonnets, Loch Ness monster replicas and those scary-looking tartan dolls with flickering eyelashes.

从John O' Groats 到Jedburgh，每个旅游胜地的纪念品货架上，都能看到许多不尽人意的格子粗麻布制品，诸如'See-you-Jimmy'的假发和无边女帽，尼斯湖水怪复制品及那些长相恐怖，还会眨动睫毛的格子布玩偶。

"Here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face!"

这儿，是她这个女人，在这可怕的时刻，以她的无力的臂膀，却支撑着我爬上这里，搀扶着我不致扑面跌倒在地！

I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face!

终于！--终于！--我站到了七年之前我就该站立的地方；这儿，是她这个女人，在这可怕的时刻，以她的无力的臂膀，却支撑着我爬上这里，搀扶着我不致扑面跌倒在地！

He's a dreadful grumbler.

他是特别爱发牢骚的人。

He is a dreadful grumbler.

她是特别爱发牢骚的人

It read:'Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices—over people's salaries.' Dreadful by any standards, and thus ideal for the likes of Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Earl Wilson, whose columns ate up more material than the gypsy moth caterpillar.

上面写着：'伍迪艾伦说他曾在O.P.S价位的酒店吃饭。O.P.S-- over people's salaries' 他的专栏博采众家之长，揉进各种由于摒弃种种写作框架，思维方式与Winchell译注1， Ed Sullivan译注2 Earl Wilson译注3相似。

A sword of Damocles;something unpleasant, dreadful ,etc that seems to be about to happen to sb

汤米带到学校里来给同学们念过的这本书够糟糕的。

This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspence, awaiting who appeer'd To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt; but all sat mute, [ 420 ] Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each In others count'nance read his own dismay Astonisht: none among the choice and prime Of those Heav'n-warring Champions could be found So hardie as to proffer or accept [ 425 ] Alone the dreadful voyage; till at last Satan, whom now transcendent glory rais'd Above his fellows, with Monarchal pride Conscious of highest worth, unmov'd thus spake.

V1：一席话说完，他坐下，眼光里显露期待的神情，等待众人的赞成或反对，或起而表示自己甘冒风险一试。可是大家都默坐，相视无言，思虑那危险而面面相觑，各从别人的脸上照出自己的心惊胆战。就是在天战中最勇敢的精英，也没有一个自告奋勇承担起这个可怕的远征。直到最后，撒旦，那时他的荣光超群，自恃力量最大，俨有寡君的骄矜，神态自若地开口说道： V2：这样说后，他坐下，眼光里显露期待的神情，等待谁来赞成，或反对，或起而表示自己甘冒风险一试。可是大家都默坐，噤若寒蝉，沉思那危险而面面相觑，各从别人的脸上照出自己的心惊胆战。就是在天战中最勇敢的精英，也没有一个自告奋勇敢于承担这个可怕的远征。

Read how poor Hazlitt made his tea, and shudder at the dreadful barbarism.

读读可怜的赫兹里特①是怎样沏他的茶的，对可怕的原始风尚便会不寒而栗。

Ere the bat hath flown his cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons the shard-born beetle with his drowsy hums hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done a deed of dreadful note.

在蝙蝠扑腾翅膀飞在寺庙旁前，在那些屎壳郎因受黑暗的召唤而集结后用他们低沉的嗡嗡声前去让那些哈欠连天的人睡着之前，会有一件可怖的事情了结。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷