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ghastly ['gæstlɪ]

a. 可怕的, 惨白的, 极坏的

ad. 可怖地, 惨白地

What a ghastly place that house is!
那座房子是个多么可怕的地方啊！
The sick woman's face was ghastly.
那女病人面色苍白。
We had a ghastly time.
我们有一段惨然的时光。

ghastly
ghastlier, ghastliest

[ adj ]

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

<adj.all>

ghastly wounds

the grim aftermath of the bombing

the grim task of burying the victims

a grisly murder

gruesome evidence of human sacrifice

macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages

macabre tortures conceived by madmen

gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

<adj.all>

a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones

ghastly shrieks

the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs

Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
{Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[ae]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
{Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
dismal.

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
--Coleridge.

His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
recognized. --Macaulay.

2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.

Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, adv.
In a ghastly manner; hideously.

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak.

The ghastly summer led to Burton being caught with its trousers marked down.
The ghastly reality of unrelenting savage war was begining to dawn. Accounts differ.
That explains his conversion to multi-racialism: the alternative was too ghastly to contemplate. Last week the president urged the voters of Potchefstroom to put aside their preference for racial purity and vote for the policy they thought would work.
Her day-by-day account of their ghastly trial and heroic deaths is wrenching, but to read the details of their ill-planned venture is also to wonder: What happened to the German mania for precision?
Several hundred sit down to lunch which, being prepared by the monks, is cheap and ghastly. I walked the Pratomagno or 'Great Meadow,' starting at Vallombrosa where Milton played the organ.
The government report was "really ghastly and beyond even the worst expectations," said Glenn Davies, an economist at CL-Alexanders Laing Cruickshank Ltd.
Sept. 1 The Herald, Everett, Wash., on war and peace: The European phase of World War II began 50 years ago, making it a half-century since the start of the most ghastly conflict mankind has ever seen.
With the alternative too ghastly to contemplate, they choose, understandably, to look on the bright side. There is also the punch-drunk factor.
As dawn came, the whole ghastly host started to charge, waving knives and screaming for blood.
"Such is this whole terrible story that the ghastly pointlessness is typical for that time," he wrote.
President Bush on Monday condemned "ghastly atrocities" by Iraqi forces in occupied Kuwait and warned Saddam Hussein that, like Nazi officials after World War II, he may face a war-crimes trial.
In the old days you would see a ghastly crash with smoke and flames and wheels hurtling off the track and Hunt would drawl 'Bit of a shunt there.
Little light is shed, for instance, on the uprising's sharp turn inward in the second year: the ghastly murders of Palestinians by their own activists on charges of collaboration with Israelis.
He was somewhere over Birmingham, or somewhere equally ghastly.
In 1986, a preliminary hearing disclosed for the first time the ghastly details of each victim's ordeal, and Ramirez was ordered to stand trial.
This portrays a ghastly sun-drenched livid mountain greenery.
'Despite the ghastly labels, and some unpleasant winemaking aromas of sorbates etcetera, I realised there was some very good intense fruit there.

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