词汇 | hellish |
释义 | hellish adjective uk /ˈhel.ɪʃ/ us /ˈhel.ɪʃ/ very bad or unpleasant: 坏透的,可恶的;烦人的 a hellish experience很糟糕的经历 Synonyms demonic god-awfulinformal infernalold-fashioned Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness noxiously objectionable objectionably odious odiously unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable Related wordhellishly hellish | American Dictionaryhellish adjective us/ˈhel·ɪʃ/ very bad or unpleasant: a hellish experience Examples of hellishhellish The world they depict is neither hellish nor depraved, but it is decidedly egoistic and provincial. Every one was looking for an exit from the hellish place. The other one will have the kind of hellish life that is commonplace in this world. To take another example : the monotheistic religions generally hold that after death there is a judgement, with some going thence to a heavenly reward and others to a hellish punishment. This situation need not be considered typical however, and it is no part of my view that those who are unredeemed must exist in this shadowy, hellish state. What followed was a "rectification" movement that, for most, made work impossible and life hellish in the late 1950s, and then from 1966 more or less until 1981. I fear that hellish travel and traffic problems also occur. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Like angels dancing on the point of a needle, small though it is, a hellish number of speculators can dance on the sugar market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conditions that appertain in the mines now are absolutely hellish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were no proper sanitary conveniences in these places, and the people were living under the most hellish conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My immediate reaction is that this will be a hellish bureaucratic procedure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This cursed, hellish invention and development of war from the air has revolutionised our position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One has to see the family in order to realise the hellish conditions under which they live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is because of the hellish conditions in every case that the working class come out on strike. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It remains that they were the object of a hellish and brutal outrage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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