(a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a
direful fiend; a direful day.
克莉丝汀编辑
双语例句
Miserable I am, and must be for a time; for the catastrophe which drove me from a house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.