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

• "I must be frightfully cruel," she muttered.
  我一定冷酷得可怕。她嘟囔道。
• Goose, not turkey turkey's out these days. oh, and not a pud make something frightfully elaborate and amazing of your own.
  要鹅，不要火鸡火鸡如今可过时了。噢，不要布丁你自己做一些精美的点心吧。
• He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were rotten; the iron bands there were only three of them were rusted.
  他怀着较大的希望去推那道大门。它已经破敝不堪，再加又高又阔，因而更不牢固，木板是腐朽的，长条铁皮只有三条，也全锈了。
• 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。
• You look frightfully normal without them.
  你不戴眼镜看上去正常得吓人。
• 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”。
• They were being frightfully uppish and rude.
  他们极端的傲慢和粗鲁。
• 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。
• He's going out to get some new material. well, I hope he will get something frightfully interesting.
  他要去找新的素材了。行，我希望他找到一些一鸣惊人的材料。
• Thomas Mann comes close to expressing what I'm trying to say to you with his carefully worded sentence about the "frightfully radical duality" between the brain and the beast in man& in all of us.
  托马斯。曼字斟句酌地阐述了人类（我们所有人）身上存在的理智与兽性这一“极基本的双重性”时，几乎道出了我的观点。