terrible
英 ['ter?b(?)l]
美['t?r?bl]
- adj. 可怕的；很糟的；令人討厭的
- adv. 很，非常
英英釋意
- 1. 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"
- 2. 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"
- 3. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
- "severe pain"
- "a severe case of flu"
- "a terrible cough"
- "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"
- "a wicked cough"
- 4. extremely distressing;
- "fearful slum conditions"
- "a frightful mistake"
- "suffered terrible thirst"
