nightmarish

基本解释

In the nightmarish city center, what they saw at the school gate was heart-stopping: four unattended book bags.
在可怕的市中心，他們在校門看到的一幕幾乎讓他們心跳停止：四個孤零零的書包散在地上。
How could you possibly prove to yourself that you are not in the kind of nightmarish situation Descartes describes?
你如何能夠曏自己証明自己不是処於笛卡爾所形容的那種噩夢般的境況中呢？
In the process he provides a timely reminder of how quickly a utopian vision can be transformed into a nightmarish reality.
他在書中適時地提醒人們，一個烏托邦式願景可以多麽迅速地變形爲噩夢般的現實。

Some even relive those nightmarish days.
"Where I think this film goes beyond what I usually expect of films like this is it creates this really in-depth,rich,complex relationship between these people and also this complex relationship that goes into the territory of nightmarish parenting."

Caveat: Figuring the taxes on DRIPs is nightmarish unless you keep careful records (see box).
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How would the U.S. government and the American people react if the following nightmarish scenario materialized?
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If you describe something as nightmarish, you mean that it is extremely frightening and unpleasant.