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 terrible ['tɛrəbl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 可怕的, 令人恐惧的, 极坏的



    terrible
    [ adj ]
    1. causing fear or dread or terror

      2. <adj.all>
      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
    2. exceptionally bad or displeasing

      3. <adj.all>
      atrocious taste
      abominable workmanship
      an awful voice
      dreadful manners
      a painful performance
      terrible handwriting
      an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
    3. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

      4. <adj.all>
      severe pain
      a severe case of flu
      a terrible cough
      under wicked fire from the enemy's guns
      a wicked cough
    4. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

      5. <adj.all>
      in a frightful hurry
      spent a frightful amount of money


    Terrible \Ter"ri*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to
    frighten. See {Terror}.]
    1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread;
    dreadful; formidable.

    Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. --Prior.

    Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord
    thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
    --Deut. vii.
    21.

    2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.]

    The terrible coldness of the season. --Clarendon.

    Syn: Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful;
    horrible; shocking; awful.
    ※ -- {Ter"ri*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ter"ri*bly},
    adv.

    1. "Urgent measures are being taken to help all those affected by this terrible tragedy, and I have to be there in this effort," said Gorbachev, who planned to fly to Yerevan after arriving in Moscow. He canceled planned trips to Cuba and Britain.
    2. But her Latin lothario has seriously misled her all these years, both about his love for her and about the true circumstances of that terrible drowning. Mickey hides in the trunk from police, which Augusta promptly dumps overboard.
    3. "Losing the money was terrible.
    4. "The situation has gone from god-awful to pretty terrible," observes Alan Jones, a spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources.
    5. "Productivity was terrible," and "boy, did they sock it to us" on wages.
    6. It isn't that this staged "Hard Times" was so terrible.
    7. Some of them were good, some were terrible.
    8. "The government is now acting to implement the recommendation for a new regulatory system and to ensure that the lessons of this terrible event are fully learnt and fully put into effect,"' Wakeham said.
    9. Things aren't really terrible on Wall Street, but they are when compared with the glorious bull market of the previous five years.
    10. They all looked terrible."
    11. "I just think this is going to be a terrible shock to the young people of our city," said City Councilman John Ray, one of those challenging Barry for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
    12. "I think it's the way he wanted to go," said his daughter, Ann Spiegel, a 46-year-old New York social worker. "I don't have a terrible feeling about it.
    13. But Bruce Babbitt, Michael Dukakis and all the GOP presidential candidates except Mr. Dole say it's terrible and won't touch it.
    14. And he recognizes himself through the terrible changes in her face.
    15. The meeting in China, he says, "is very much up in the air at this point." Recessions, or economic downturns of the kind Wall Street is now worrying about, have a terrible and well-deserved reputation.
    16. It reported he said, "I have seen and done terrible things.
    17. "I had some old ratty Mexican cigarettes somebody had given me," he recalls. "They were terrible to smoke and worse to look at. I handed the kid a few of them and he handed me $5.
    18. TRULY terrible results from Barclays and the absence of a rate cut from the Bundesbank threw cold water yesterday over the London stock market's moves to new peaks.
    19. End Adv PM Fri Dec. 21 One of the more terrible punishments that can be inflicted by economic events is uncertainty, and during this holiday season it is present in lumps, like coal in a Christmas stocking.
    20. It was very terrible." The next morning, at her tearful insistence, she was moved to a section for woman political prisoners.
    21. "But without Jack Daniel's the county would be in a terrible situation.
    22. If they are made compulsory the attitude will be terrible,' said one Tec official. Such a move might also reverse a marked improvement in attitudes towards Training for Work among participants.
    23. He thought World War II was a terrible mistake and became a conscientious objector.
    24. He called the incident a "terrible human tragedy," but defended the actions of the Navy commander who gave the order to fire, and said Iran shares responsibility in the 290 deaths for sending its plane into a battle region.
    25. Jacqueline Kennedy said, "I was looking this way, to the left, and I heard these terrible noises.
    26. "I think there's sort of a terrible fear of death in this country, and I just don't think you should fear something that is absolutely inevitable," she said in an interview with The Associated Press.
    27. "I think it's terrible that I have a firm in Canada and I can't underwrite the Canadian government," he said.
    28. "It is a terrible thing to think there are people who would do this to the resting places of the dead," said Rabbi Jacob Rubinstein in Manchester.
    29. The Social Democrats have tried to capitalize on the terrible economic problems in the East German territory since the former nation converted to a free market economy.
    30. "It's really a terrible situation," Greene said. "I have a lot of respect for the military and the reserves."
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