horrendous

英 [həˈrendəs]

美 [həˈrendəs]

adj.  令人震惊的; 骇人的; 讨厌得难以容忍的

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11261 / COCA.11785

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人震惊的；骇人的
  extremely shocking
  1. horrendous injuries
     可怕的伤势
• 讨厌得难以容忍的
  extremely unpleasant and unacceptable
  1. horrendous traffic
     糟透了的交通

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 骇人的;令人震惊的
  Something that ishorrendousis very unpleasant or shocking.
  1. He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life...
     他形容这是自己一生中最可怕的经历。
  2. The violence used was horrendous.
     所使用的暴力骇人听闻。
• ADJ-GRADED （数量、程度等）大得惊人的，极其过分的
  Some people usehorrendousto describe something that is so big or great that they find it extremely unpleasant.
  1. Nor do their debts looks so horrendous when related to the value of their fixed assets.
     如果和他们的固定资产值相比，他们的债务看起来也并不算惊人。
  2. ...the usually horrendous traffic jams.
     常常糟糕透顶的交通堵塞

英英释义

adj

• causing fear or dread or terror
  1. the awful war
  2. an awful risk
  3. dire news
  4. a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
  5. the dread presence of the headmaster
  6. polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
  7. a dreadful storm
  8. a fearful howling
  9. horrendous explosions shook the city
  10. a terrible curse
  Synonym:awfuldiredirefuldread(a)dreadeddreadfulfearfulfearsomefrighteninghorrificterrible

双语例句

• As Google's security specialists kept looking, they found even more horrendous consequences.
  就在Google的信息安全专家持续观察研究时，他们发现了更可怕的后果。
• I did this film because I believe that if we as a country are going to cause such disorder we must also be prepared to face the horrendous images that result from these events.
  我创作这部电影的原因在于我相信如果我们这样的国家引起了如此大的混乱，那么我们也应该准备好去面对由此局面而产生的可怕的结果。
• The proposed power station will be a horrendous blot on the landscape.
  提议中的电站将会大煞风景。
• So that's the reason why this semimajor axis is indeed such a horrendous number.
  这就是为什么半长轴是，如此大的数字的原因。
• Not even the most horrendous of creations such as a mass annihilation, is a form of victimization.
  甚至没有绝对令人惊恐的创造物类如一场大型的灭绝是一种牺牲的类型。
• Poor man, he is a soul, but his soul was the horrendous destruction of the world.
  可怜的人，他是有灵魂的，只是他的灵魂被世人摧残得不成样子了。
• Every time he does something horrendous, think how much you will enjoy retelling the anecdote later on.
  每当他做出一些可怕的事情，就想一想你随后讲述这段轶事的时候将是多么有趣。
• No other club has suffered three horrendous injuries like this in the last four years.
  这四年间在英超，没有其他任何一家俱乐部曾经遭受过如此严重的受伤事件。
• The horrendous Spanish detective becomes a bodyward in his new third adventure.
  西班牙侦探开始了他可怕的第三次航行。
• Had Mali become a second Somalia, the political and economic costs would have been horrendous.
  如果马里变成第二个索马里，政治和经济代价将非常可怕。