dire
英 ['da??]
美
- adj. 可怕的；悲惨的；极端的
英英释意
- 1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;
- "a desperate illness"
- "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall
- "a dire emergency"
- 2. causing fear or dread or terror;
- "the awful war"
- "an awful risk"
- "dire news"
- "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
- "the dread presence of the headmaster"
- "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
- "a dreadful storm"
- "a fearful howling"
- "horrendous explosions shook the city"
- "a terrible curse"