dire
dire 英 [ˈdaɪə(r)] 美 [daɪr]
adj. 可怕的；悲惨的；极端的
比较级:direr 最高级:direst
- Dire refers to situations or events that cause great fear and worry. A dire calamity causes much suffering.
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- adj. 可怕的；悲惨的；极端的
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1. Sugar, while not the dire poison some of its critics make it out to be, has no nutritional upside either.
糖，虽然不如它的反对者说的像毒药那么可怕，但它的确没有什么营养价值可言。
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2. The most dire signal is that your habits are hindering progress toward your common goals.
最可怕的信号是你的这些习惯在阻碍着你们共同目标的实现。
- dire (adj.) 1560s, from Latin dirus "fearful, awful, boding ill," which is of unknown origin. Apparently a dialect word in Latin; perhaps from Oscan and Umbrian and perhaps cognate with Greek deinos, from PIE root *dwei-, forming words for "fear; hatred."
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