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Ghastly means horrible — either and connected with death, or, much more often in everyday British speech, just very unpleasant: ghastly weather, a ghastly mistake. It can also describe someone who looks ill and very pale.
可怕的、糟透的；面色慘白的
組成From an old word meaning to frighten; the same family as 'aghast'.
同家族的字
- aghastthe same old 'terrify' root
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ghastlyadj/ˈɡɑːs(t).li/
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Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
- Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
- His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
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Horrifyingly shocking.
- Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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datedExtremely bad.
- The play was simply ghastly.
- Well, Uncle, it's really been a ghastly mistake from the very beginning.
ghastlyadv/ˈɡɑːs(t).li/
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In a ghastly manner.
- Her face was ghastly pale, and perhaps rendered still more so by the blueish light of the fire.
- She drained it at a single draught, while Sancgraal’s silent lips appeared to tremble with some mental utterance—perhaps, for who can fathom the depths of superstition, in her most cavernous hollows of atheistic doubt?—perhaps murmuring the absolutory formula of his church over her!—Almost immediately after she grew very ghastly pale, and staggered against the shrine.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。