appalling
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B2 中高級英檢高級
adj.形容詞令人毛骨悚然的
Is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?
v.t./i.動詞 (及物/不及物)駭人聽聞的
The violent attack in Paris was appalling the citizens
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【BBC】敘利亞「敘利亞「阿塞德政權」一夜垮臺 (Syria's new government to investigate Assad's regime | BBC News)
- I think it's hard to overstate the brutal dictatorship that the Assad family have exerted in Syria for over half a century and clearly from your report the impact on the ordinary people of Syria has been appalling and what we're hearing about the release of political prisoners in the last few days since the taking of Damascus by the rebel opposition forces confirms all of that.
我認為，阿薩德家族半個多世紀以來在敘利亞實行的殘暴獨裁統治無論怎樣強調都不為過，從你的報告中可以清楚地看到，敘利亞普通民眾受到的影響令人震驚，而我們聽到的關於反政府武裝攻佔大馬士革後最近幾天釋放政治犯的消息也證實了這一切。
- And clearly, from your report, the impact on the ordinary people of Syria has been appalling.
他是否對這一地區產生了穩定作用，是否損害了敘利亞人民的利益？
美國人說的跟想的不一樣？這些英文單字在美國竟然是「相反的意思」（Words that Mean the Opposite in America）
- At the bottom, you've got abysmal and appalling.
它顯示了英國人如何給常見的說法打分數，從 1 到 10 分。
- At the bottom, you've got abysmal and appalling.
在最下面，你有 abysmal 和 appalling。
人生不是為了快樂！ (Life is Not About Being Happy)
- But this doesn't perhaps have to be the measure of everything. We don't need to be constantly offended by our agitations. Our day-to-day troubles don't have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives. Given where we've come from and how we're constituted, we were never going to be happy in any obvious way. But perhaps a good life can in the end be compatible with being fairly perturbed most days of the week. Perhaps it doesn't matter that a relationship has failed once more. Perhaps it isn't appalling that our business doesn't deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job. We've stretched ourselves, we've learned to raise our voices, we've developed courage. We don't have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract, but as the logical and immovable consequences of our stubborn and subtle natures interacting with the complexities of existence. We're sometimes frightened into reorienting our lives by being asked to contemplate how we might feel about them from the vantage point of our deathbeds. But if on this bed we were to look back at a rollercoaster of emotions and events, we might have got married for the fifth time recently, we might smile to ourselves and, to the beeping of the heart monitor beside us, say with wisdom and compassion, it wasn't a calm life for sure, it wasn't for the most part even a happy one, but heaven knows it was a truly and properly interesting one. And with this as our measure, we might meet our end with all the satisfaction and self-acceptance we could hope for.
但這也許並不是衡量一切的標準。我們不需要總是被自己的躁動所冒犯。我們的日常煩惱不必成為我們判斷人生價值的標尺。鑑於我們的出身和構成，我們永遠不會有明顯的幸福。但是，也許美好的生活最終可以與一週中大多數日子的焦慮相容。也許一段感情再次失敗並不重要。也許，我們的事業沒有給我們帶來在以前的工作中可能得到的回報並不令人震驚。我們拓展了自己，我們學會了發出自己的聲音，我們鼓起了勇氣。我們不必把悲傷和煩惱的印記看作是對純潔契約的某種違反，而應看作是我們頑固而微妙的天性與複雜的生存環境相互作用所產生的合乎邏輯的、不可動
- Perhaps it is not appalling that our business does not deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job.
小孩們第一次去逛街的反應！ (Kids React To going to the store!)
- That is appalling.
我完全不知道！
- That is appalling.
也許他抽屜裡或衣櫃裡都沒有。
為什麼有些人明明渴望愛，卻又害怕靠近？（Those Who Are Terrified of Love）
- They thought they did, but the reality is appalling.
他們以為自己知道，但現實卻很糟糕。
- They thought they did, but the reality is appalling.
小時候，他們就發生了一些事。
【人權教育】人權危機：被世界領袖漠視的原因 (World Leaders are Failing Human Rights. Here's Why. | NYT Opinion)
- And it was an appalling year for human rights.
去年也是人權低落到極點的一年。
- and it was an appalling year for human rights.
去年也是人權低落到極點的一年。
說服學 1：訊息組成要素！ (Persuasion 1: message component)
- this study…appalling kinds of violation. So first, the researcher was paid to find
在這份研究報告中...有著令人震驚的違規行為。第一個，這位研究人員是受雇來找出
- So there are serious and major ethical violations in this study, appalling kinds of violations.
所以他是受雇的並且他還有另一項金錢上的考慮因素，因為他想要證明
