Frightful

(adj.) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; 'in a frightful hurry'; 'spent a frightful amount of money' .

阿玛莉亚整理

• I have come back to the Barsoom that I saved from a painless death to again save her, but this time from death in its most frightful form. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I felt nothing but the natural human impulse to save him from a frightful death. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Now, about some things, St. Clare is really frightful--he frightens me--good-natured as he looks, in general. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I was silent: the things were frightful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But, here--here it is frightful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Do you imagine that this anaemic youth was capable of so frightful an assault? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Her eyes gleamed like fire as she confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I tremble at the frightful danger into which our husbands, our friends, our brave troops and allies, are rushing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She wept over her little girl; she looked, she spoke, as if she dreaded the occurrence of some frightful calamity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The second sword I withdrew noiselessly, but the third clanked in its scabbard with a frightful din. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Madame was a great deal too ill, and had been in a frightful state ever since her husband's departure, so her bonne said. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is frightful, messieurs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The agonies that woman has endured are quite frightful to hear of. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is frightful--this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody's hearing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Spectral or not, here truly was nothing frightful, and I advanced. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The last four-and-twenty hours had produced a frightful alteration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is nothing frightful in such a picture, is there, Miss Price? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The back is Guster's bedroom, and in it she's a-carrying on, poor thing, to a frightful extent! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• With a frightful roar the great beast sprang among the assemblage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• You may well say so, ma'am: it was frightful! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miss Crawford's letter, which she had read so often as to make every line her own, was in frightful conformity with it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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