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dire

[英] [daɪə] [美] [daɪr] 生词本

adj. 可怕的，恐怖的；悲惨的；迫切的，极端的

易混淆的单词：DIrE

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1. ADJ-GRADED 严峻的;严重的;可怕的 Dire is used to emphasize how serious or terrible a situation or event is.

A government split would have dire consequences for domestic peace...

政府的分裂将会给国内和平带来严重后果。
He was in dire need of hospital treatment.

他急需入院治疗。
...dire poverty.

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2. ADJ-GRADED 极其糟糕的;质量低劣的 If you describe something as dire, you are emphasizing that it is of very low quality.

...a book of children's verse, which ranged from the barely tolerable to the utterly dire.

一本儿童诗歌集，其中有的能勉强接受，而有的简直是糟透了。

Adjective

1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

"a desperate illness"
"on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall
"a dire emergency"

synonym： desperate

2. causing fear or dread or terror;

"the awful war"
"an awful risk"
"dire news"
"a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
"the dread presence of the headmaster"
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
"a dreadful storm"
"a fearful howling"
"horrendous explosions shook the city"
"a terrible curse"

synonym： awful，direful，dread(a)，dreaded，dreadful，fearful，fearsome，frightening，horrendous，horrific，terrible

1. His life is in dire danger from cancer.: 他因患癌症而生命垂危。

2. Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits.: 父亲失业了，我们陷入了极大的困境。

3. The company is in dire straits.: 公司处于极度困难的境地。

4. The people here are reduced to dire poverty because of (the) natural disasters.: 这里的人们由于自然灾害而穷不聊生。

5. There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.: 曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。

6. They deprived a large number of the overseas Chinese of their means of livelihood and drove them out of their residences in dire poverty.: 他们剥夺了大批华侨劳动人民的生活资料，然后将他们扫地出门。