A terrible sight met their eyes.

一幅可怕的景象映入他们的眼帘。

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I've just had a terrible thought.

我刚刚产生了一个可怕的想法。

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I'm in a terrible predicament.

我的处境十分尴尬。

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"The death of five brave soldiers in a single incident is a terrible and tragic loss and I want to pay tribute, as the whole House will, to their professionalism and to their courage and service,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The reason this isn't a terrible assumption is you could think that getting a higher share of the vote gives you a mandate.

这么假设没什么不妥,因为你可以认为获得更多的票数,意味着你会获得委任机会

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Mr Montefiore recognises that even so terrible a man as Stalin had a side to his personality that was not to his discredit.

ECONOMIST: Stalin

So it was terrible a few days.

NPR: FEMA Trailers Make Life Possible, but Difficult

Similarly, the enduring false belief that Ravi was responsible for outing Tyler Clementi, and for putting a sex tape on the Internet, can be seen as a collective effort to balance a terrible event with a terrible cause.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Suicide