ghastly

英 [ˈɡɑːstli]

美 [ˈɡæstli]

adj.  (因有关疼痛、死亡等而)恐怖的，可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的; 糟透的; 令人不快的; 令人恶心的; 令人反感的; 讨厌的

最高级：ghastliest　

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.9722 / COCA.14128

牛津词典

adj.

• （因有关疼痛、死亡等而）恐怖的，可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的
  very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc.
  1. a ghastly crime/murder
     可怕的罪行 / 谋杀
• 糟透的；令人不快的
  very bad; unpleasant
  1. The weather was ghastly.
     天气糟透了。
  2. It's all been a ghastly mistake.
     这是个极其恶劣的错误。
• 令人恶心的；令人反感的；讨厌的
  that you find unpleasant and dislike very much
  1. her ghastly husband
     她的讨厌的丈夫
  2. This lipstick is a ghastly colour.
     这唇膏的颜色令人恶心。
• 有病；不适；苦恼
  ill/sick or upset
  1. I felt ghastly the next day.
     我第二天感到身体很不舒服。
• 死人般苍白的
  very pale in appearance, like a dead person
  1. His face was ghastly white.
     他的脸色惨白。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人反感的；令人不快的
  If you describe someone or something asghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant.
  1. ...a mother accompanied by her ghastly unruly child...
     身边带着一位极难管教的孩子的母亲
  2. It was the worst week of my life. It was ghastly.
     这是我这辈子最倒霉的一周，别提有多烦了。
  3. ...a particularly ghastly murder.
     骇人听闻的谋杀案

英英释义

adj

• shockingly repellent
  1. ghastly wounds
  2. the grim aftermath of the bombing
  3. the grim task of burying the victims
  4. a grisly murder
  5. gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  6. macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  7. macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  Synonym:grimgrislygruesomemacabresick
• gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
  1. a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
  2. ghastly shrieks
  3. the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
  Synonym:charnelsepulchral

双语例句

• We wouldn't be in this ghastly mess if you had kept quiet.
  你们当初要是保持安静的话，我们就不会处于这样令人难堪的混乱了。
• That brings ghastly results.
  这将带来可怕的后果。
• The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.
  后果不堪设想。
• It's all been a ghastly mistake.
  这是个极其恶劣的错误。
• He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies
  他周围的人都在给他灌输可怕的谎言。
• After a sleepless night, she looked very ghastly.
  经过一个无眠的夜晚，她看起来非常可怕。
• She left out none of the ghastly details: the wives forced to bury their husbands before being raped;
  她没有遗漏任何恐怖的细节：妻子们在被强暴之前被迫埋葬她们的丈夫；
• One way of avoiding that ghastly outcome may be to keep Pyongyang talking.
  与平壤方面保持对话，也许是避免这种可怕后果的一种办法。
• I feel ghastly; I shouldn't have drunk so much!
  我觉得很不舒服，我不该喝那么多！
• I feel ghastly about refuse, but I have no alternative.
  我觉得要加以拒绝很不是滋味，但我别无他途。