horrifying

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The rate at which species are disappearing from Planet Earth is horrifying.
地球上的物種正以驚人的速度從這個星球上消失。
When I turn eight,a horrifying fact changed my life forever.That fact was death.
我八歲時,一個令我恐懼的事實永遠改變了我的生活.那就是死亡.
Horrifying as these punishments might be to modern sensibilities, there is no prospect of their exercise in any Western country.
在現(xiàn)代人看來這些處罰都是令人感到恐懼的，所以在西方國家里是不會有被施行的跡象的。

As she heard the muffled roar of the van starting up in the distance, a horrifying realization gripped her."
In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.
早期英國文學中的一個小場景,那是彌爾頓從他的閱讀中選出的，你們，對于可怕的不可挽回的啞口無言有種寂靜感,這與童貞緊密相連。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.
有一些，對我們許多人來說，這個了不起如我們的事物,尊貴有價值如我們的事物，最后以一堆腐肉結(jié)尾的想法是可怕的。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

Is it so horrifying that men take on some of the "non-market" tasks in family life?
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