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awful ['ɒ:ful]

a. 可怕的, 庄严的, 虔敬的

It was awful to see him in such pain.
看到他这样痛苦真叫人难过。
It would be awful if he found out the truth.
如果他发现了真相，那就糟了。
Awful!
好可怕呀!

awful

[ adj ]

offensive or even (of persons) malicious

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in a nasty mood

a nasty accident

a nasty shock

a nasty smell

a nasty trick to pull

Will he say nasty things at my funeral?

[ adv ]

used as intensifiers

<adv.all>

terribly interesting

I'm awful sorry

[ adj ]

exceptionally bad or displeasing

<adj.all>

atrocious taste

abominable workmanship

an awful voice

dreadful manners

a painful performance

terrible handwriting

an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room

causing fear or dread or terror

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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

inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence

<adj.all>

awed by the silence

awful worshippers with bowed heads

extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

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in a frightful hurry

spent a frightful amount of money

inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

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New York is an amazing city

the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight

the awesome complexity of the universe

this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath

Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent

Awful \Aw"ful\, a.
1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as,
an awful scene. ``The hour of Nature's awful throes.''
--Hemans.

2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with
fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
profoundly impressive.

Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton.

3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]

A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I.
Watts.

4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.]

Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak.

5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

Syn: See {Frightful}.

There's an awful lot of ifs to this thing."
There is an awful lot of other drawing out there, of such different kinds.
"This will probably wind up in an awful mess," Gillis added.
His letters are filled with references to deadlines and the need for cash ("there are going to be an awful lot of bailiffs nipping at my heels unless I can rustle up some of the long green").
"I don't rule out the possibility that one of these days I'll decide that I may be more interested in exploring the presidency, but I would have to feel that I had the substantive answers to an awful lot of the challenges facing America," he says.
"The idea of working five days in an office is awful mundane." His wife, Bev, a bartender near their home in Eureka, Calif., believes Kuwait will be a safer place now that the Iraqis have been so soundly defeated.
"There's an awful lot of activity out there," says President Robert Ady.
As Mr Davis explains: '1994 is the fourth year of the equity financing boom in the US, and there's been an awful lot done.
"There was an awful lot that was good about Texas and about the thrift business but both had their problems.
High on bookstore best-seller lists is an economist's prophecy that a new Great Depression, more awful than the last, will strike by 1990.
"I think it's going to be awful," said NBC reporter Lisa Myers as she considered the prospect of grabbing delegates and politicians for floor interviews during the four nights of the Democratic National Convention starting today.
"There's an awful lot of uncertainty," the ad agency official said, adding that his pre-stock market crash estimate was based on "a lot stronger economic expectations."
Now they simply say 'John - another ten tons of Morse, please'. Last week Anita Roddick, rarely off the box for months, was on that awful interview-yourself series.
But it hasn't done an awful lot lately, and people are beginning to wonder whether the club members aren't napping in their wing chairs, victims of early senescence.
You've got to realize they've gone through an awful time over the last couple of years with Noriega, who has done a great deal to break down the social fabric of the country, and we've got to try and help them rebuild it.
"I've seen an awful lot of companies press the point and make awful acquisitions that they've had to live with," Mr. Atwell said.
"I've seen an awful lot of companies press the point and make awful acquisitions that they've had to live with," Mr. Atwell said.
'What has happened is that an awful lot of the smaller organisations have gone and there is a move towards the more secure suppliers, and they are all quite busy,' he adds.
"An awful lot of people say they're going to wait until the next program," says Mark Herrmann, the owner of Mark Buick in Yonkers, N.Y.
The actions speak louder than the words, which may be a good motto for a general or even a politician, but is an odd basis for a theatrical production. There is an awful lot of action about in our big theatres at present.
"And though there are major problems in China, things that we don't like about their system, things are an awful lot better than they were back in 1975," when Mr. Bush was posted there.
Do you mean to say that in these perilous times, when nobody knows what awful thing will happen next, you have no financial plan?
"It doesn't take a genius to work out there are an awful lot of newspapers out there," says Brian Jacobs, media director of advertising agency Leo Burnett Ltd.
"The truth is that there will be new depths (of horror) again as long as this awful and evil campaign of terrorism and revenge continues," King said.
Oct. 16th has a better chance than most days of finding a significant niche in history, and you'd feel awful if you missed it.
"The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all." Dahl was also known for his unnerving short stories.
"It was awful," Miss Pinks says.
Experts are still unsure whether oatmeal will make you live longer, but a new study suggests that to do much good, you'll have to eat an awful lot of it.
None of these groups would be a bad choice for fund investors, says Don Phillips, publisher of Morningstar Mutual Funds. "These groups are well-established internationally and you can find an awful lot of good choices among them," he says.
Jane runs at such a high pitch that she often loses perspective. When her boss sarcastically tells her that it must be great to always be the smartest person in the room, she takes him seriously. "No, it's awful," she sobs.

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