hellish

英 [ˈhelɪʃ]

美 [ˈhelɪʃ]

adj.  极不愉快的

BNC.21525 / COCA.18113

牛津词典

adj.

• 极不愉快的
  extremely unpleasant

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 地狱般的;讨厌的;可憎的
  You describe something ashellishto emphasize that it is extremely unpleasant.
  1. The atmosphere in Washington is hellish...
     华盛顿的气氛令人憎恶。
  2. I'm sure you will remember from the hellish years of your boyhood.
     我相信你一定记得自己梦魇般的童年时代的事情。
• ADV …得要命;…得够呛
  You usehellishto emphasize an unpleasant quality or its great extent.
  1. It's hellish cold up here in winter.
     这里的冬天冷得要命。

英英释义

adj

• extremely evil or cruel
  1. something demonic in him--something that could be cruel
  2. fires lit up a diabolic scene
  3. diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils
  4. a fiendish despot
  5. hellish torture
  6. infernal instruments of war
  7. satanic cruelty
  8. unholy grimaces
  Synonym:demonicdiabolicdiabolicalfiendishinfernalsatanicunholy
• very unpleasant
  1. hellish weather
  2. stop that god-awful racket
  Synonym:beastlygod-awful

双语例句

• The hellish traffic swirls all round the church but inside there is calm.
  教堂四周到处是嘈杂的车水马龙，里面倒很宁静。
• Four days offline can be truly restful. Whereas a two-week break can be two weeks of hellish preparation, two weeks of rest, followed by two stressful weeks digging out from under 2,000 emails.
  4天的离线生活能够让人获得真正的休息，而两周的假期却可能成为两周地狱般的工作准备，人们休息两周之后往往还要花两周时间处理遗留下来的2000封邮件。
• It's hellish being a student without a grant.
  作为一名没有助学金的学生是很够呛的。
• Amazingly, once you leave the hellish work atmosphere, you suddenly feel energized and ready to run a marathon.
  令人惊奇的是，一旦你离开工作环境，便突然觉得自己神采飞扬，甚至能跑个马拉松。
• 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。
• Now popular culture in America and elsewhere in the west is agog about the physical prowess of these highly toned men who suffer hellish tests in order to enter this elite killing machine.
  现在，美国乃至西方其他国家的流行文化都对海豹部队的体能惊叹不已，这些体格强健的男人经受了地狱般的考验才得以成为这个精锐的杀人机器的一分子。
• Were the roads as hellish as I told you?
  路是不是象我告诉你的那么难找？
• By extension, the celestial light and hellish darkness occur in postlapsarian Garden of Eden.
  更有甚者，天堂的光明和地狱的黑暗，两者意象同时出现在伊甸乐园里面。
• I'm going to Canberra University. His schooldays were hellish.
  我准备去堪培拉大学。他的学生时代苦不堪言。
• This has been a hellish juggle, for we are married here upon the foot of a double fraud.
  这套是个恶毒的骗局，我们是在双重欺诈下结婚的。