英语单词“terrible”的意思是:糟糕的,极度的,极度的,糟糕透顶的。
读音:英 [ˈterəbl] 美 [ˈterəbl]
例句:The terrible news has hit home.
翻译:可怕的消息使他们震惊。
单词“terrible”还可以扩展以下例句和情境:
1. The terrible storm caused widespread damage.
翻译:那场可怕的暴风雨造成了广泛的破坏。
2. The terrible accident left her shaken.
翻译:那次可怕的事故让她受到震动。
3. We thought our future together was lovely until I came back from France with this terrible news.
翻译:我认为我们在一起的未来会是美好的,但自从我从法国回来后给了我这样的坏消息后我们就会这样了. 原本开心的心就不痛快了
4. At our best we may dream impossible dreams and then wake up to the terrible realities of our lives.
翻译:我们最美好的时候,也许会梦想着不可能实现的梦想,然后醒来面对生活中可怕的现实。
5. She looked at the terrible state of the house and said she would do something about it.
翻译:她看了看房子糟糕的状况说道要动手翻新了。
6. Even his memories were full of terrible fear, endless suspense, gnawing horror at each fleeting thought that lay latent like some enfeebled orphan beneath a brilliant cosmetic layer in an hour glass on an August beach after rain on an eternal morass beneath whose hungry voracity thunderclouds graze and whose very breath is a venomous wind that blows in from the sea.
翻译:甚至他的记忆也充满了可怕的恐惧,无休止的悬疑,每个一闪而过的想法都像是在八月雨后的海湾里沙漏中沉睡的孤儿,饥饿的渴望之下,雷声隆隆,它们在吸取着生命的气息,而那气息正是从海那边吹来的毒风。
以上句子中的“terrible”都是用到了其比较级形式,即“terrible的”,用以形容更糟糕的情况或情感。同时,“terrible”还可以作为形容词来表达程度上的严重性,比如上述句子中的“terrible realities”。