“I dare not return with those dreadful horses,” said Madame de Villefort

“可我不敢再用那两匹可怕的马拉我回去了。”维尔福夫人说道。

“And you say ’ben’ for ’been,’” she continued; “’come’ for ’came’;and the way you chop your endings is something dreadful .”

“你还把‘been’说成‘ben’，”她说下去，“该用过去时‘I came’时，你却用现在时‘I come’。你吞起尾音来也厉害。”

And you took pleasure in beholding these dreadful spectacles?

“您很高兴看这种可怕的情景吗?”

’Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,’ he said sententiously.’It’s insidious

“思想罪可是件要不得的事情，老兄，”他庄重地说，“它很阴险。

It was subsequently to these dreadful events that I waited on your excellency, to whom it would have been folly to have mentioned Benedetto, since all trace of him seemed entirely lost; or of my sister, since she was dead.

“在这些可怕的事发生以后，我就来侍奉大人了，我觉得再向大人提起他们未免太愚蠢了，因为贝尼代托已毫无下落，而我的嫂嫂也已经死了。”

Oh, it is dreadful--I know what you are going to say--he didn’t return your transcript of the pretended test-remark.

唉，这太可怕了--我知道你想说什么--他没把你的那份假对证词还给咱们。

No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.

不，先生，他是得脑膜炎死的，临终时痛苦极了。

The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful ; and to heighten the matter, I found her alone

不过，看见你亲爱的妹妹，确实叫我害怕。而我单独与她见面，更是火上添油。

They were, you may be sure, in a dreadful consternation

不消说，他们顿时吓得魂飞天外。

What was there to say except that adage, which was so old it had grown a long white beard and so stale it was moldy: “Women are the most dreadful of all!”

除掉那句老得长白胡子、陈腐得发霉的话:“女人是最可怕的!”还有什么可说!

And from this time the thoughts of Macbeth were all bloody and dreadful

从那时候起，麦克白净转一些血腥的、可怕的念头。

To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little son would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree

从他们亲爱的儿子的财产中拿走三千镑，将会使他穷到最可怕的地步。

he uttered the most dreadful sob which ever escaped from the bosom of a father abandoned at the same time by his wife and son

从一个同时被他的妻子和儿子所抛弃的父亲的胸膛里，发出了人世间最可怕的啜泣。

It must have been two years afterwards, and I was almost fourteen, when one dreadful night my godmother and I sat at the fireside

大约过了两年，我快满十四岁了，在一个可怕的夜晚，我和教母坐在壁炉旁边。

But now they were ready for me and, though some dreadful scenes were subsequently enacted in that restaurant, I never ate there again

但现在他们对我已经习惯，尽管那家餐馆里后来闹了几次事，我却再也不到那儿去用餐了。

And there, deep down in that dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation

当代最危险的罪犯和最杰出的护法卫士将永远葬身在那漩涡激荡、泡沫沸腾的无底深渊中。

While she looked at him pleadingly, he drove on in a dreadful silence

当她恳求似地抬起眼睛望他时，他继续开车，沉默得可怕。

When he had sufficiently recovered himself, he said, “It appears, then, that the miserable old man you were telling me of was forsaken by every ne. Surely, had not such been the case, he would not have perished by so dreadful a death.”

当他已充分恢复常态的时候，他说道，“那么，您所说的那个可怜的老人既然是那样死去的，一定是其周围的人所抛弃的了?”

When the young woman heard the dreadful news she went out of her mind

当这少妇听到这可怕的消息时她发了疯。

When the last echo had faded, there was a dreadful stillness.

当最后的回声消失后，出现了可怕的死寂。

The earthquake was a dreadful disaster.

地震是一种可怕的灾难。

What a dreadful noise!

多么令人厌恶的嗓音!

The room is in dreadful disorder

房间里乱七八糟。

Greta is wearing a dreadful cardigan she knitted herself

格里塔穿着一件她自己编织的难看的羊毛衫

Haide, still calm, but with a calmness more dreadful than the anger of another would have been, handed to the president the record of her sale, written in Arabic

海黛依旧很镇定，但这宁静却比别人的愤怒更可怕，她把那张用阿拉伯文写的卖身契交给主席。

That’s horrible/dreadful !

好可怕/吓人!

asked Wu Sun-fu tautly, as if making an effort to control himself. “Humph! It had to be, I suppose, and now it’s happened!” She felt his dreadful , piercing eyes searching her face

哼，要来的事，到底来了!”吴荪甫似乎努力抑制着忿怒的爆发，冷冷地说;他的尖利的眼光霍霍四射，在少奶奶的脸上来回了好几次:是可怖的撕碎了人心似的眼光。

If we paid no attention to education, science and technology, we would waste another twenty years, and the consequences would be dreadful to contemplate.

还要再耽误二十年，后果不堪设想。

The general, with his head thrown back, hands extended, gaze fixed, looked silently at this dreadful apparition

将军张开双手，头向后仰着，目光凝滞，默不作声地盯着这个可怕的显身

You can discount what Jack said; he’s a dreadful liar.

杰克说的话你不必当真，他可是个说谎大王。

penny dreadful

ph.1. (描写暴力、犯罪等的)廉价惊险小说(或杂志)

in a dreadful mess

adj.杂乱,混乱

dreadful punishment theory

恐惧刑理论