(of an event 事情 very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc. （与疼痛、死亡等相关而）恐怖的，可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的 a ghastly crime/murder 可怕的罪行／谋杀 She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare. 她在一场可怕的噩梦中醒来。
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(of an experience or a situation 经历或形势 very bad; unpleasant 糟透的；令人不快的 The weather was ghastly. 天气糟透了。 It's all been a ghastly mistake. 这是个极其恶劣的错误。 When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me. 当她提到裁员时，有那么一瞬间，我觉得她指的是我。
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(of a person or thing 人或物 that you find unpleasant and dislike very much 令人恶心的；令人反感的；讨厌的 - [not usually before noun]
ill or upset 有病；不适；苦恼 - (literary)
very pale in appearance, like a dead person 死人般苍白的
Word OriginMiddle English: from obsolete gast ‘terrify’, from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th cent.