awful
美 [ˈɔf(ə)l]
英 [ˈɔːf(ə)l] 
- adj.糟糕的;非常的
- adv.〈口〉十分地
- 网络可怕的;极坏的;让人讨厌的
同义词
英汉双解
1. |
很坏的;极讨厌的very bad or unpleasant |
| That's an awful colour. 那颜色难看得很。 |
| ‘They didn't even offer to pay.’ ‘Oh that's awful.’ “他们甚至不主动付钱。”“哦,那真不像话。” |
| It's awful, isn't it? 糟糕透了,不是吗? |
| The weather last summer was awful. 刚过去的夏季天气真坏。 |
| I feel awful about forgetting her birthday. 我忘了她的生日,感到很过意不去。 |
| to look/feel awful(= to look/feel ill) 面带病容;感到很不舒服 |
| There's an awful smell in here. 这里有股很难闻的味道。 |
| The awful thing is, it was my fault. 糟糕的是,这是我的过失。 |
2. |
非常的;很多的;过多的used to emphasize sth, especially that there is a large amount or too much of sth |
| It's going to cost an awful lot of money. 这要花非常多的钱。 |
| There's not an awful lot of room. 没有很多的空间。 |
| I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday. 我觉得身体比昨天好得多了。 |
| I had an awful job persuading him to come(= it was very difficult) . 说服他来真是费劲死了。 |
| the awful horrors of war 骇人听闻的战争恐怖情形 |
| Clint is awful smart. 克林特机灵极了。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
It's hard to disappoint them. When my grades even begin to drop at all, I feel as though I've failed. It's an awful feeling.
令他们失望是不好受的。我的分数哪怕刚有点下降,我就会觉得好像自己已经失败了,那种感觉非常可怕。
If that hill didn't change its shape on bad nights there would be an awful steamboat grave-yard around here inside of a year.
如果在视线不好的夜间那座山没有变化外形,那个地方一年内一定会出现一个蒸汽船的坟场。
He felt that this silence was God's judgment; that all creation had been stilled before the just and awful wrath of God.
他感到,这沉寂就是上帝的审判,天地万物在公正而可怕的神谴面前变得寂静无声。
He's improved an awful lot over the last few years and I know I'm not the only one who thinks that.
他在过去的几年中取得了相当惊人的进步,我知道我不是唯一这么想的人。
It's an awful thing to live in the dark, unable to see what others take for granted.
生活在黑暗之中,看不见别人习以为常的美好事物,是可怕的事情。
She looked up at him quickly, but he was ready for her. He had banished from his face the awful despair that he carried in his soul.
她马上地抬起眼来看着他,可他已经做好准备,脸上不再表现出隐藏心中那可怕的绝望。
She said she had a sore throat and was feeling awful.
她说她嗓子疼,而且感觉很难受。
THE dramatic $2-a-share rescue of Bear Stearns was, almost everyone agreed at the time, the best way out of an awful situation.
以每股2美元的戏剧性价格救贝尔史登公司于水火,这几乎是当时所有人都赞同的最佳出路了。
He remembered uneasily the awful glow of her skin and the distracting clarity of her eyes.
他心绪不安地回想起她那特别光润的皮肤和晶莹迷人的眼睛。
i ' m ashamed to say this , but i was in a rock band and we were really awful , but a fun thing for me to do.
我很惭愧说这个,当我们在摇滚乐队的时候确实很可怕,但对我来说是件非常有趣的事情。
When I get phlegm in my throat, no matter how much I cough, I can't clear my throat and it 's all awful feeling .
当我喉咙有痰时,不管我咳多久,也不能清出来,感觉很不舒服。
I used to hear stories of awful tragedies and think of all the reasons it could never happen to me.
以前,我读着那些可怕的悲剧,根本想象不到有任何理由这些事情会发生在我的身上。
Dane buried his head in his hands. "Floria and I have been all over the galaxy. I've met so many beings. He's one in a line of awful ones. "
Dane用手臂抱住头,“我和Floria去过银河系很多地方,见过无数的人,他给我的印象很差,我得仔细想想。”
To be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with Him is a foretaste of Heaven!
总之,剩下一人而没有神同在,是太凄凉的事;剩下一人而有主同在的话,是预尝天上的光景!
My mother carried on something awful. She wanted me to put it away in the savings bank out of reach of temptation.
我妈妈看上去有点担心,她让我把钱存进银行里,以防我被诱惑。
He got to his feet, swaying from stiffness, trying to shake off sleep and that awful dream.
他站到地上,身子僵硬得东摇西晃,一心想把睡意和那个恶梦赶掉。
"I guess I'll not try to go out to-day, " he said to Carrie at breakfast. "It's going to be awful bad, so the papers say. "
“我想我今天就不出去了,”早饭时,他对嘉莉说。“天气将会很糟,报纸上这么说的。”
Suddenly he said: "My dear Victor, what is the matter with you? Are you ill? Has something awful happened? "
他突然说道:“我亲爱的维克多,你怎么啦?你生病了吗?发生了什么可怕的事情了吗?”
words : This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression .
别拐弯抹角了:这看起来极像是第二次大萧条的前兆。
Well. But I hope we won't get lost. It would be so awful! " and the girl shuddered at the thought of the dreadful possibilities. "
“行是行,不过但愿别再迷了路。真是要命!”小姑娘一想到前途未卜,不禁打了个寒颤。
He reflected, "What's the matter with me today? Seems like I've got an awful grouch. "
他暗暗寻思:“我今天怎么啦?仿佛情绪不对头。”
I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday.
我觉得身体比昨天好得多了。
You ought to be ashamed to lie there and sleep so, and such an awful storm going on.
你居然躺在那儿,睡得那么酣,也该知道害羞呀,外面刮风下雨那么凶。
He was like a rock, a dead man's body, a dying bird, fallen from an awful height.
他就象是从令人胆寒的高处掉下来的一块岩石,一具死人的躯体,一只奄奄一息的鸟儿。
"You can't imagine how awful it is, " she said fiercely.
“您简直想象不出有多糟糕,”她十分生气地说。
This argument and the awful weight of the hour quelled the would-be heresy-hunters.
这一论点,以及当时的严重局势,制止了那些所谓的迫害异端的人们。
I had an awful job persuading him to come.
说服他来真是费劲死了。
Yet in the "black and awful chaos of the night, " he felt "the coming glory of the light. "
可是,在“黑夜而可怕的混乱中”,他感觉到“即将到来的黎明的光辉。”
It must be awful to be sleepless.
不能入睡真叫人受不了。
No ordinary marriage could bring him such an awful beauty.
寻常的婚姻不可能给他带来这么一位摄人魂魄的美人。
There was something awful about it.
这可真有点儿叫人心寒毛竖。
I feel awful about forgetting her birthday.
我忘了她的生日,感到很难过。
The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.
战争太可怕了,真不敢去想。
I've just had an awful thought.
我忽然又害怕了。
"I've got an awful headache, " he answered.
“我头疼的要命,”他回答说。
The weather last summer was awful.
去年夏季天气真坏。
They use that awful jargon.
他们用的那些要命的口号。
There's an awful smell in here.
这里有股很难闻的味道。
That's an awful colour.
那颜色难看得很。
There's not an awful lot of room.
没有很多的空间。
"I love to have fun but I also need to do this to take my mind off (the fact) that business is just awful these days, " he said.
“我也爱玩,我必须出去才能让精神放松一下,这几天的生意真是糟糕。”
Where to get a good pizza in London? This question arose because an American friend of mine had the most awful experience.
伦敦哪里才能吃到可口的匹萨呢?我提出这个问题完全是因为我一个美国朋友的可怕经历。
This sounds an awful lot like a heroin addict who robs his mother's purse of rent money and buys drugs and prostitutes with it.
这听起来很像瘾君子从他母亲那里强抢钱包用来买毒品、嫖妓。
She told the Lord that it was awful, she had to sleep in cold back alleys where there was no food and life was hard.
她告诉主说太可怕了,她必须睡在冰冷的后巷,那里没有食物,生活十分艰苦。
Oh, if it had been His will to take the grey head to rest before this awful visitation on my house and name!
啊!要是在那个恶运降临我的门楣之前,上帝就让我这白发苍苍的老人与世长辞,那该多好!
But I love my awful life so much right now, that I find it hilarious when I am unable to convince anyone else of it.
即时它摧毁了我的家,但现在十分我喜欢我糟糕的生活,当我不能使其他人确信是我发现它是欢闹的。
I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you.
虽然我的生命本已应该就此停滞,但我仍然为一些糟糕的事情疲于劳碌。
Well, Emily came into Mark Melcher' s drugstore one day and got behind the prescription counter and began to take on something awful.
然而有一天,埃米莉·霍顿小姐来到了马克·梅切尔的药店,径直走到了柜台后面,开始向马克讲述她的糟糕的情况。
But just then he was doing, I believe, what I was trying to do: hold on to our lives despite this awful error in judgment.
但就在这时,他在干什么,我相信,我要怎样做:在我们的生活,尽管持有这种可怕的错误判断。
The pick sliced through the air where his head had been and smashed against the wall with awful impact, barely missing the swirl stone node.
一只镐头切过他头部原先所在的空气,带着骇人的力量撞击在石壁上,差点砸中露出的漩涡石。
First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
第一,日本人已准备投降,没有必要使用如此恐怖的武器攻击他们。
I turned; a second huge wave was overtaking us, winch I half hoped would drown me. With a curious fascination I watched its awful advent.
我转过身去,又一排巨浪迎头向我们扑过来,我以为这一下子多半要给淹死了,不由魂飞魄散地瞅着那可怕的大浪。
We've been on the mark on an awful lot of our assessments, but there have been a handful of things we've underestimated.
我们在大部分的评估项目上做的很好,但也有一些我们确实低估了。
Moreover, a chap got to shouting unendurably: " I do not choose to take your awful airplane any longer, let me get off quickly. "
还有已经受不了的,大叫:“我再也不坐你们的破飞机了,快让我下去。”
I do not know how long I was asleep , but all of a sudden there was an awful scream and I was up .
我也不知道睡了多久,忽然间听到一阵可怕的尖声喊叫,我立刻爬了起来。
No challenge anywhere can be allowed to jeopardize the goal of permanently improving the world by driving out a truly awful disease.
任何地方的任何挑战都不得危及我们的目标,这就是消灭一种非常可怕的疾病,使世界得到永久改善。
But I guess I'd say if it is just us. . . seems like an awful waste of space.
但是我猜,我想说的是,如果这仅仅是我们…看起来会很浪费空间。
In effect that the reaction already is just so awful, demonstrates that this might not have been such a good idea.
事实上,现在情况已经非常糟糕了,这说明这个计划可能不是个好主意。
The next night she also slept, but when she awoke she had terrible pain and severe diarrhea. She was in an awful state.
隔天她也睡着了,但是当她醒来时,感到非常疼痛,并有严重的腹泻,情形很糟。
We were trying to get him on the ball an awful lot more.
我们尝试将许多球都传给他。