Dire

(superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

(superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

录入:赛斯

• He was roused from a meditation on these dire imaginings by the sudden appearance of two figures at a turn of the lane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation: Bust me, if she ain't at it agin! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Kala punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took notice and warned and threatened; but all to no avail. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He only seemed to contrast his present cheerfulness and felicity with the dire endurance that was over. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Pile dirge on dirge; rouse the funereal chords; let the air ring with dire wailing; let wild discord rush on the wings of the wind! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Vase am I, she thought, vase brimful of despair's direst essence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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