frightfully

英 [ˈfraɪtfəli]

美 [ˈfraɪtfəli]

adv.  十分; 极其

BNC.22413 / COCA.29432

牛津词典

adv.

• 十分；极其
  very; extremely
  1. I'm frightfully sorry.
     我非常抱歉。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 讨厌的;令人不快的;可怕的
  Frightfulmeans very bad or unpleasant.
  1. My father was unable to talk about the war, it was so frightful.
     我父亲没法谈论那场战争，那太可怕了。
• ADJ 非常的;极度的
  Frightfulis used to emphasize the extent or degree of something, usually something bad.
  1. He got himself into a frightful muddle...
     他把自己卷进了一个不可收拾的乱摊子。
  2. What frightful gossips people are, even one's best friends.
     人们最爱散布流言蜚语，哪怕是自己最好的朋友也不例外。

英英释义

adv

• used as intensifiers
  1. terribly interesting
  2. I'm awful sorry
  Synonym:terriblyawfullyawful

双语例句

• They aren't so frightfully expensive, are they?
  又不是特别贵，对吧？
• Your daughter sounds frightfully intellectual with no focus.
  听起来，你的女儿非常聪明，但没有重点。
• He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came;
  他曾经严重地渴望那种职业活动，在它出现时他便非常欢迎。
• I'm frightfully sorry, but I've got an awful shock for you.
  非常抱歉，但是我有一个非常糟糕的消息告诉你们。
• You look frightfully normal without them.
  你不戴眼镜看上去正常得吓人。
• The Gipsy grumbled frightfully, and declared if he did a few more deals of that sort he'd be ruined.
  那个吉卜赛人抱怨说，这种生意要是再做几次，他就要倾家荡产了。
• Our forefathers also created a kind of word by word written language which is frightfully difficult ( T2).
  我们的古人又造出了一种难到可怕的一块一块的文字；
• Juliet hulme: all the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. it's all frightfully romantic.
  朱丽叶休默：所有最棒的人都有糟糕的胸腔和骨病。但它们却可怕得浪漫。
• Yet did the physician, in his dark way, creep frightfully near the secret.
  不过，医生以他那不为人知的手段，已经可怕地爬近了秘密。
• Moving from Toxteth to a "frightfully posh" part of Cheshire, her mother came "face to face with the British class structure".
  从托迪斯搬到柴郡一个“使人害怕的豪华的”区域，她的母亲“与英国阶级结构打了个照面”。