Terrible

(a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

(a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.

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• Everything that arose before his mind drifted him on, faster and faster, more and more steadily, to the terrible attraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I could not help saying, If you were a wicked, designing man, how terrible would all this be! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Magical and terrible things like the telegraph and the railway arrived. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gerald's father had looked wistful, to break the heart: but not this last terrible look of cold, mute Matter. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Why do you want to put me under such terrible obligations? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• That's the terrible part of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Papa felt so acutely--you know you are not strong, and there must have been such terrible suspense to go through. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For an instant she sat up, her cheeks flushed, and her eyes blazing from under the terrible mark upon her brow. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I never understood it from Aunt Shaw; I only knew he could not come back to England because of that terrible affair. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It's a terrible thing, Joe; it ain't true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• For the repeal of your terrible law--the Orders you hate so much. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• If he were another of the wild denizens of this terrible forest what might he not do to claim her? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• A suggestive application of the terrible power of these explosives is in submarine mines. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It would be a terrible catastrophe should such a thing happen, for not one of us could hope to escape. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I will do what I can, Drusilla, to please you, with a look of surprise, which was at once instructive and terrible to see. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Oh, shocking--terrible! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was terrible to think of again encountering those bearded, sneering simpletons; yet the ground must be retraced, and the steps sought out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There was a stage, that evening, when she spoke collectedly of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And I myself,' he added, 'actually saw this terrible sight. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was something terrible and deadly. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Horsemen were streaming off in every direction, and the clatter of empty wagons being driven off almost drowned the sound of that terrible singing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I felt terrible when we started. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But the terrible certainty of his words remained the same. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For two weeks no word has come back from them, but rumours were rife that they had met with a terrible disaster and that all were dead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• If it did, the loss of life would be terrible. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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