| 单词 | dreaded |
| 释义 | dreaded (dredɪd ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Dreaded means terrible and greatly feared. No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can use the dreaded to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying, inconvenient, or undesirable. [informal, feelings] She's a victim of the dreaded hay fever. Team orders on the final day were to avoid the dreaded blank at all costs. Collocations: dreaded disease If it's yellow, then it may have the dreaded disease. Times, Sunday Times As many as 30 to 40 percent of people in their eighties have this dreaded disease. Christianity Today It has already started to change the landscape of medicine, to transform its capacity to contain - and even sometimes cure - this dreaded disease. Times, Sunday Times He subsequently retired from baseball with an early case of the dreaded disease of catchers: bad knees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He heartily continued nursing her on a day and night battle which lasted a full month and five days and finally saved her from the clutches of the dreaded disease. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ironically, in view of the free-thinking adult company, it was the schoolboy who uttered the dreaded word, twice, in a rant against the unfettered 'sloppy' journalism of the underground press. Times, Sunday Times He even remembers a young couple walking by on the sidewalk, laughing and joking, oblivious to what he felt as the dreaded word ricocheted inside his mind. Globe and Mail He bridles at a dreaded word, bling. Times, Sunday Times There was no bombast, bumbling or bluster and not a single mention of the dreaded words 'this great country of ours'. Times, Sunday Times But every answer seemed to boil down to the same dreaded words: check the website. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 可怕的 Japanese: 恐ろしい |
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