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hellish

/hel-ish/US // ˈhɛl ɪʃ //UK // (ˈhɛlɪʃ) //

惨不忍睹的,惨不忍睹,惨无人道的,惨不忍睹的情况

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, like, or suitable to hell; infernal; vile; horrible: It was a hellish war.
    • : miserable; abominable; execrable: We had a hellish time getting through traffic.
    • : devilishly bad: The child's behavior was hellish most of the day.

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Examples

  • For anyone who thought vaccines would quickly end this hellish pandemic, think again.

  • Rocky neighbors were too dry and cold like Mars, or too hot and hellish like Venus.

  • Although Venus is uninhabitable today, the fact that it may have been habitable at one point means it wasn’t always destined for such a hellish fate if circumstances broke a little more favorably.

  • Hickson’s basic design was to put volunteers through ten weeks of fairly hellish training, involving six days a week of 40 minutes of cycling or running at intensities that reached 90 to 100 percent of max heart rate by the end.

  • After many hellish months in Liberia, it seems the worst could be over.

  • But there is much to be said for a private, hellish experience becoming an issue of public debate.

  • From Ferguson to Gaza to Iraq, this summer has been hellish.

  • He was finally released in 2004, after almost 40 hellish years of brutal internment.

  • And that means it has to potential to redeem Christie—or make his already-hellish 2014 much, much worse.

  • This, they said, was no human being like themselves; such hellish practices could have but one origin.

  • So this was the accursed one who had done the hellish deed, and it was human folly that had caused this demoniacal explosion.

  • This allusion to the hellish gambling which went on in the dead man's house, was his only funeral oration.

  • They are the night force come on deck for a breath of air between working their shifts in the hellish heat below.

  • They saw the oncoming hordes of brutes in a hellish-looking garb, and they sent back the answer: "Retire be damned!"