Awful

(adj.) 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' .

尤妮斯录入

• Why, George, this state of mind is awful; it's getting really desperate George. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It's awful dirty. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It was an awful existence. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• As the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out on the air, like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• There remained this way, this awful African process, to be fulfilled. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs which yawned at her throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That unconscious appeal, so touching and so awful in the sacredness of her sleep, ran through me like fire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Bl?nc, in awful majesty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• There was a moment of awful suspense as the procession waited for the Honourable Samuel Slumkey to step into his carriage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is impossible for me to write the awful word, which is here represented by a blank. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My name, said he, is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I was awful nigh bursting out a laughing though, when it made John stare! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Oh, Lily, what an awful life you'll lead! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Let me die, dear Lord, don't let me see that awful face again. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The last of the evening light was fading away; and over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Except for the awful thing you've gotten into. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In a strange uplift of elation she saw him, the being never to be revealed, awful in its potency, mystic and real. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Those last four boys were awful. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• My De-ar, this is becoming Awful--' her father was emphatically beginning: when she stopped him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Oh, how awful! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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