\\\"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\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
Many people witnessed the horrendous massacre. 許多人目擊到該次令人不寒而栗的大屠殺。
He decucted that only one person was capable of committing such a horrendous crime. 他推斷出只有一個人能夠犯下如此可怕的案子。
That colour scheme is horrendous. 那樣的色彩設計真讓人吃驚.
常用短語
The translations were mostly horrendous,..stale and florid.
出自：B. Guest
Niven had just lost his first wife in a horrendous fall down..cellar stairs.