direful

英

美

adj.  可怕的；悲惨的

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:awfuldiredread(a)dreadeddreadfulfearfulfearsomefrighteninghorrendoushorrificterrible

双语例句

• I am the greatest, able to do least, yet most suspected, as the time and place doth make against me of this direful murder;
  时间和地点都可以作不利于我的证人，在这场悲惨的血案中，我虽然是一个能力最薄弱的人，但却是嫌疑最重的人。
• Gratiano.'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.
  葛莱西安诺出了什麽乱子啦？这叫声很是凄惨。