The papers gave the lurid details of the murder.

报纸上描述了谋杀案的详情，令人毛骨悚然。

paperbacks with lurid covers

封面装璜豪华的平装书.

A lurid ,melodramatic,but accurate account of the accident.

关于这事件的一则轰动且耸人听闻但确切的报导

A lurid account of the crime.

骇人听闻的犯罪报道

lurid thunderclouds

红得发紫的闪电雷云.

Then he had read newspaper reports of the stealthy goings and comings of rebel spies in our midst, and of their lurid purposes and their two or three startling achievements, till his imagination was all aflame on that subject

后来他又看到报纸上报道叛军的间谍到我们这边来潜伏活动的情况，以及他们那可怕的企图和两三次轰动一时的成功，结果他的脑子里就把这个问题想入非非了。

Until courting couples learn this rule, girls will go on ending up with drawersful of unwearable slippery camisoles in lurid colours, and men with racks of acutely embarrassing ties

互献殷勤的男女们直到后来才了解这个规则，结果是女孩们的衣橱抽屉塞满了难以捉摸的、不能穿着的色彩艳丽的贴身内衣，男人们则有了一排排令人极度尴尬的领带。

a lurid sky (sunset)

火红的天(晚霞).

Jack London’s is the better novel in being rather less lurid and rather more consistently grim

杰克?伦敦的那一部略胜一筹，因为它所描写的凶兆大致上顺理成章，而且不那样悲惨。

She gave him an affectionate goodnight, and went out with him to the door, whence the fire of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid

她很亲热地视他晚安，同他走到门口，从那儿可以看到焦煤镇的灯火，把远处照得亮堂堂的。

With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal. It was whispered, by those who peered after her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.

她就这样木雕泥塑般地又给带回监狱，从众人眼前捎失在钉满铁钉的牢门后面。那些目光随着她身影窥视的人耳语着说，她胸前的红字在中内黑漆漆的通路上投下了一道血红的闪光。

Eat up lurid testimony

津津有味地听取耸人听闻的证词

a lurid tale

恐怖的故事.

The sinking sun filled the great heaven, high across whose arch the cranes and wildfowl streamed in line, square, and triangle, with flashes of flying gold and the lurid stain of blood

落日的余辉映照苍穹，给那些呈一字形，四方形，人字形疾飞的白鹤和野雁镀上一层鲜血般殷红的光辉。

The papers gave the lurid details of the murder.

那家报纸对凶杀案作了骇人听闻的详细报导.

Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.

那天,她为一种反常的神经紧张和个性中全部好斗的精神所支撑,使她能够将那种场面变成一种惨淡的胜利。

There was a lurid , gloomy canopy above; the elmtrees drooped their heavy blackish green

上面是一片苍白又阴郁的苍穹;榆树枝叶郁郁苍苍地低垂下来。

Cast a lurid light on the facts [a person’s character]

使事实[某人的性格]显得可怖;过份渲染事实[某人的性格](使之显得阴森可怕)

cast [throw] a lurid light on

使显得凄惨, 说得可怕

lurid crimes.At other times it merely refers to glaring and usually unsavory sensationalism

耸人听闻的罪行。该词极少用来指怒目而视的并且通常是令人不快的危言耸听

His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated, but they had a tremendous impact

他对金融界腐化的揭发是过分渲染和高度夸张的，但确曾产生巨大影响。

Their preferred style, both of speaking and dress, is that favored by game show hosts--no accident, since the televangelized are often ardent fans of daytime TV, with its big-prize game shows, melodramatic talk shows and lurid soap operas

他们所喜欢的风格，包括语言与着装，都是游戏节目主持人所喜欢的那种---这绝非偶然，因为接受电视布道的人常常是白天电视节目的热心观众，而白天的电视节目往往是那些有大奖的游戏表演秀、情节夸张的脱口秀和渲染色情恐怖的肥皂剧。

Right here, I think, I entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct

我觉得，就在这里，发现了与祖宗相结的清教徒严正的良心，催逼我去做可怕的事情，甚至把谋杀当作一种正当的行为。

So miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose-it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance round about her. But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!

无论她肩负多么悲惨的重荷,无论她可能多么巴望能得到安静的休息,这红字总向她周围发散出使人畏惧、令人深恶痛绝的幽光。但是就在你们中间,却站着一个人,他的罪孽和耻辱并不为你们所回避!“

The lake shining rather glassy away below, the mountains rather sulky, the greenness very green, all a little silent and lurid , and two mowers mowing with scythes, downhill just near: slush!

下边湖面泛着如镜的明

The lurid covers of paperbacks

颜色刺眼的平装书封面

A lurid incident that scandalized the whole town.

一起震惊全镇的桃色事件

Some Western journalists like to colour their stories up with lurid details of people’ s private lives

一些西方记者喜欢用人们私生活中耸人听闻的细节来渲染自己的报道。

For one lurid moment she saw Dot Magston in the arms of a lad she didn’t know

在可怕的一刹那中，她分明看见黛特?马斯顿被一个她不认识的小伙子搂在怀里。

||1:The government has big gaps to fill.||2:Mr Tusk will be joined in Brussels by his capable deputy, Elzbieta Bienkowska.||3:After doing an excellent job of disbursing the billions of euros Poland gets from the European Union, she is to become European commissioner for the internal market.||4:There is no obvious candidate to take over from her.||5:There could be change at the foreign ministry, which Radek Sikorski has headed since 2007.||6:He is said to be in the running for Speaker of parliament, but changing a well-regarded foreign minister in the middle of the Ukraine crisis may not seem wise.||7:More certain to go is Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, the interior minister, whose dinner-table talk made such lurid reading.

||1:波兰政府还要补很多课。||2:图斯克将通过他的得力助手Elzbieta Bienkowska加入布鲁塞尔。||3:在出色地完成了支付波兰从欧盟得到的数十亿欧元这一工作之后，Elzbieta Bienkowska即将成为欧洲内部市场专员。||4:对于她的接班人，并没有明显的人选可以接替她。||5:而拉德克·斯考斯基自2007年开始领导的外交部可能会出现变动。||6:据说他会担任国会发言人，但在乌克兰危机时期更换一名广受好评的外交部长似乎并非明智之举。||7:内务部长Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz在餐桌上的交谈为这一爆炸性消息更增添了可信度。