基本释义
- adj.
- 非常严重的; 可怕的; (感觉或看起来)病得很重的; 劣质的; 很糟糕的; 十足的
词性变化
- 比较级:more terrible;
- 最高级:most terrible;
实用例句
a terrible experience
令人极不愉快的经历
牛津词典
What terrible news!
多么骇人听闻的消息！
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I've just had a terrible thought.
我刚刚产生了一个可怕的想法。
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a terrible accident
重大事故
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He had suffered terrible injuries.
他受了重伤。
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I feel terrible─I think I'll go to bed.
我觉得难受，想去睡觉了。
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a terrible meal
劣质餐食
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Your driving is terrible!
你的驾驶技术真是糟糕透了！
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(informal)I had a terrible job (= it was very difficult) to persuade her to come.
为劝她来，我费尽了口舌。
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a terrible mistake
严重的错误
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to be in terrible pain
处于极度痛苦之中
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The room was in a terrible mess.
房间里脏乱不堪。
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Tens of thousands more suffered terrible injuries in the world's worst industrial disaster...
还有成千上万的人在那场全世界最严重的工业灾难中受了重伤。
I often have the most terrible nightmares...
我常做很吓人的噩梦。
He did feel terrible at the time but seems to be fine now...
他当时确实很难受，但现在似乎好了。
Are you all right? You look terrible. Are you sick?
你没事儿吧？你的脸色很难看，生病了吗？
She admits her French is terrible.
她承认自己的法语很蹩脚。
I was a terrible fool, you know. I remember that now...
你知道，我那时愚蠢至极。我至今还记得。
Her death is a terrible waste.
她死得太不值了。
We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years.
表面上道貌岸然的人或有声望的家庭,却有着骇人听闻,多年不让人知道的秘密,这样的事情我们经常在小说里读到.
《用法词典》
Ken and I took Mocky to a bookstore.
肯和我带着莫奇去了一家书店.
期刊摘选
It's hard to pick yourself up after such a terrible shock.
经历这样可怕的打击后,就很难再振奋起来了.
《简明英汉词典》
真题例句
Brown? You know, Ben’s given up making those terrible faces he used to make.
出自-2017年6月听力原文The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child.
出自-2015年12月听力原文It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train.
出自-2014年6月听力原文Yes, but I was going to say I thought the acting was terrible.
出自-2012年12月听力原文A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.
2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section ALet's start with the bad news that Americans are terrible at technology skills, using email, naming a file on a computer, using a link on the web page, or just texting someone.
2017年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section BThe weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.
2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section CTraffic was terrible but the people are friendly.
2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section BYou know, Ben's given up making those terrible faces he used to make.
2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section BIn an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, "you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn't write at all".
出自-2013年12月阅读原文What a terrible memory you have!
出自-2010年6月听力原文That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section CA terrible sorrow washed over me.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文Cathy suffered some terrible illness in her early childhood.
2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain.
2014年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.
2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文If he hadn't reacted quickly, there could have been a terrible accident.
2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 完形填空 原文In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio.
2014年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible crowds on the roads above as they travelled to and from word.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文It was so terrible I burst out crying.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文When we complained about the terrible smell, dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right.
2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文英英释义
1. 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"
2. exceptionally bad or displeasing;
"atrocious taste"
"abominable workmanship"
"an awful voice"
"dreadful manners"
"a painful performance"
"terrible handwriting"
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
3. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
"severe pain"
"a severe case of flu"
"a terrible cough"
"under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"
"a wicked cough"
4. extremely distressing;
"fearful slum conditions"
"a frightful mistake"
"suffered terrible thirst"
同义词辨析
afraid, fearful, awful, dreadful, frightful, terrible, horrible, terrific, appalling
这些形容词均含"害怕的，怕的"之意。