awfulness

1. It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of mid-day, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light.
   它就象白昼一般清晰地勾勒出街上熟悉的景色，但也乎添了那种由不寻常的光线照到熟悉的物体上总要产生的可怕印象。
2. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity;
   给我的印象是，深夜叩门之声折射出凶手的那种独有的恐惧和深重的严肃。
3. His lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources.
   他的疯癫的反现实的艺术比从可靠的来源得来的平凡的有威严的消息更能引起我们的兴趣。
4. The awfulness of the Tigers has enabled the government to present the war as a fight against the scourge of terrorism that must first be eliminated before a political solution can be contemplated.
   猛虎组织的卤莽行为使得政府把这场战争形容成了一场对恐怖分子的惩罚，但如果想用政治手段来解决问题，这个说法首先必须被淘汰。
5. You have no idea of the awfulness of it, I was going completely mad and I wouldn't have stuck it so I knew I had to leave.
   你简直无法想象那个地方有多糟糕，我都要彻底发疯了，我本就不该留在那里，我知道是时候离开了。
6. I admit, Goodkind's first few novel was kind of entertaining, but the entertainment was lost behind the sheer awfulness of the man's writing.
   我承认，古坎德最初的一些小说还称得上是有趣的，但这种趣味性早就在他那彻底严肃化的写作中消失殆尽。

noun

1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness

   Synonym:    dreadfulnesshorridnessterribleness