(of an event )事情 very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc. synonym horrible(與疼痛、死亡等相關而)恐怖的,可怕的,令人毛骨悚然的 a ghastly crime/murder 可怕的罪行/謀殺 She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare. 她在一場可怕的噩夢中醒來。
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(of an experience or a situation )經歷或形勢 very bad; unpleasant synonym terrible糟透的;令人不快的 The weather was ghastly. 天氣糟透了。 It's all been a ghastly mistake. 這是個極其惡劣的錯誤。 When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me. 當她提到裁員時,有那麽一瞬間,我覺得她指的是我。
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(of a person or thing )人或物 that you find unpleasant and dislike very much synonym horrible令人惡心的;令人反感的;討厭的 - [not usually before noun]
ill or upset synonym terribleTopics Illnessc2有病;不適;苦惱 - (literary)
very pale in appearance, like a dead person 死人般蒼白的
Word OriginMiddle English: from obsolete gast ‘terrify’, from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th cent.