awful

释义

adj.令人讨厌的; 可怕的; 不舒服的; 非常的; （量）极多的adv.极其，非常

词态变化

名词 :   awfulness ;

实用场景例句

The amount of work I need to complete is truly awful.

我需要完成的工作量真是多得可怕。

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Awful, your beauty is absolutely breathtaking...

糟糕，你的美丽简直让人窒息...

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Awful moments stretch endlessly when reflecting on past decades.

回想过去的几十年时，可怕的时光仿佛无限延长。

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My look was awful, accompanied by distinct trembling sensations.

我的样子糟透了，还伴随着明显的颤抖感。

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Suffering from awful sleeplessness, I endured unbearable distress all night long.

整夜可怕的失眠让我忍受着难以承受的痛苦。

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Running into him, I immediately thought he was absolutely awful.

一见到他，我立刻觉得他糟透了。

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The idea of spending another minute in London seemed awful! What a horrendous place.

在伦敦再待一分钟的想法都显得糟糕透顶！真是个恐怖的地方。

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The gruesome injuries across her limbs painted an awful scene that chilled the blood.

她四肢上可怕的伤痕构成了一幅令人心惊胆战的骇人景象。

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The awful atrocities they committed are so horrifying that they could chill one's soul.

他们所犯下的骇人暴行如此可怕，足以让人的灵魂战栗。

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真题例句

Not only is this a boring and awful way to treat children, it makes no sense educationally.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Don't you think it's an awful waste of time?

出自-2014年6月听力原文

I feel awful whenever I make a mistake in whatever I'm trying to do.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

After realising an email accident, you are likely to feel awful.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with - work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective

1. exceptionally bad or displeasing;

"atrocious taste"

"abominable workmanship"

"an awful voice"

"dreadful manners"

"a painful performance"

"terrible handwriting"

"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

2. causing fear or dread or terror;

"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"

3. offensive or even (of persons) malicious;

"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?"- Ezra Pound

4. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;

"awed by the silence"

"awful worshippers with bowed heads"

5. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder;

"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"- Melville

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

Adverb

1. used as intensifiers;

"terribly interesting"

"I'm awful sorry"