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

• She suffered from the most horrendous allergies.
  她在遭受最可怕敏感症的折磨。
• How many black males were involved in the horrendous rapes, murders and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan?
  有多少黑人参与了那些发生在伊拉克和阿富汗的强奸，谋杀，凌虐事件？
• The military escalation and the extent and the horrendous casualties on the Palestinian side are playing directly into Hamas'hands.
  军事冲突升级和巴勒斯坦方面令人吃惊的伤亡情况都符合哈马斯的计划。
• The firm made horrendous losses last year.
  这公司去年的亏损惊人。
• He said it had been a horrendous period but the firm still had a lot of smart, dedicated people and all the capital it needed.
  史密斯表示：他说这是可怕的时期，但公司仍有许多聪明、敬业的员工和所需的全部资本。
• The story of that horrendous trial has not been, and may never be, expunged from public memory.
  那场可怕的审讯始终没有，也不可能永远会从公众的记忆中消除。
• And these challenges will grow more pronounced as we are confronted with states that are fragile or failing& places where horrendous violence can put innocent men, women and children at risk, with no hope of protection from their national institutions.
  当我们面对那些脆弱或失败的国家时，这些挑战变得越发明显在那些地方，骇人听闻的暴力将无辜的男女和儿童置于危险之中，没有希望得到国家机构的保护。
• 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。
• "What he did was so horrendous, how he tortured our children," Hoyt said.
  “他的行径极端残忍，他折磨我们的孩子的手段令人发指，”霍伊特说。
• 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。