hellish

• adj. 地狱的；凶恶的；令人毛骨悚然的

比喻用法。

1. very unpleasant;

"hellish weather"

"stop that god-awful racket"

2. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell;

"something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"

"fires lit up a diabolic scene"

"diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"

"a fiendish despot"

"hellish torture"

"infernal instruments of war"

"satanic cruelty"

"unholy grimaces"

hellish (adj.)

1520s, from hell + -ish. Related: Hellishly; hellishness. Earlier in same sense were helli "helly" (late 12c.); hellen "hellish, infernal" (c. 1200), with -en (2); and Old English hellic.

It's hellish cold up here in winter.

这里的冬天冷得要命。

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The atmosphere in Washington is hellish.

华盛顿的气氛令人憎恶。

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It was a hellish thing to do.

做那种事真讨厌极了.

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Were the roads as hellish as I told you?

路是不是象我告诉你的那么难找?

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But we ought not - we will not - travel down that hellish path blindly.

但是我们不应该也不能沿着地狱般的道路盲目地走下去.

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The hellish noise andjoined to make the place seem a hell itself.

嘈杂,吵闹,咒诅,骚扰,臭气,龌龊,使那地方好像是地狱的象征.

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He grumbled, he said he hated the hellish hole.

他牢骚满腹, 他说他憎恨这个地狱般的村庄.

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The weather's been hellish recently.

近来的天气真叫人够受了!

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His schooldays were hellish.

他的学生时代苦不堪言.

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Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased.

同时心脏的地狱般的纹身增加.

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His is a hellish promiscuity, desperate not so much for love as for loss.

那是地狱般混乱的爱欲沉沦, 爱比不爱更绝望.

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She said that conditions in the hospital after the hurricane swept through were hellish.

她说在那场飓风横扫之后,医院里就像地狱一样.

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The hellish noise roaring, swearing, and clamour joined to make the place seem a hell itself.

那种地狱般的嘈杂、吵闹, 诅咒, 骚扰,揉杂在一起,使那个地方好像是地狱一样.

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