A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可怕
Terrible
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
我试着为我妈妈的生日烤一个蛋糕——花了我四个小时。太可怕了，我哭了三天。
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
贪婪不能再次引领潮流。我们以前曾走过这条路，给这个国家和人民带来了可怕的后果。
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
生活是一件美好的事情，可以谈论，也可以在历史书中读到——但是当一个人不得不生活的时候，它是可怕的。
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
如果你做了可怕的事情，你必须忍受可怕的事情;因为这样，不公正的神圣之光就会闪耀。
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
在每一个信经的后面，都有一些可怕而又艰难的东西，信徒有一天可能要为之受苦。
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
我以前被解雇过，这是一个可怕的打击;冗余是个烂词，因为它让你觉得自己一无是处。
We've spent a lot of time working on tackling, something we were terrible at last season. We want to get more people to the football.
我们花了很多时间在攻防上，上个赛季我们很糟糕。我们想让更多的人来踢足球。
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
爸爸，我遇到麻烦了。发生了一场意外，从现在起你会听到各种各样关于我的事。可怕的事情。
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
变老的可怕之处在于你的朋友开始死去，在过去的十年里，我失去了七八个最亲密的朋友。
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
通常，以进步需要进步为借口所做的可怕的事情根本不是真正的进步，而是可怕的事情。
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
我认为面试是可以的。只是害怕说错话或者断章取义。
I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
我不是一个爱哭的人，但在别人面前做一些你不擅长的肢体动作，会轻微地摧毁灵魂。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
我可以做很多糟糕的电视节目，但我基本上坚持要给你带来新闻。
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
如果我们看到现在是多么可怕，多么注定，我们就会对未来有更好的准备。
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
我们为什么要嘲笑这些可怕的事情?因为喜剧往往是对不可避免的悲剧的讽刺实现。
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
当我躺在床上读一本好书时，我感到快乐和安全……我忘记了世界上所有可怕的事情。
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
陆海空军备竞赛不仅是人民的可怕负担，而且我认为它是对世界和平的最大威胁之一。
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
美既神秘又可怕。上帝和魔鬼在那里战斗，战场是人类的心脏。