frightfully

英 [ˈfraɪtfəli]

美 [ˈfraɪtfəli]

adv. 十分; 极其

BNC.22413 / COCA.29432

牛津词典

adv.

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。

adv

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

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。
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”。
You look frightfully normal without them.
你不戴眼镜看上去正常得吓人。
You never dream that you are making me frightfully unhappy.
你从未想到过你正在使我非常不愉快。
She is so frightfully spoiled.
她给溺爱得不成样子。
They aren't so frightfully expensive, are they?
又不是特别贵，对吧？
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；
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。