The Celtic priests called druids built giant bonfires to combat the ghastly spirits.

于是，被称为“德鲁伊”的凯尔特牧师搭建了巨大的篝火来对抗这些可的鬼魂。

It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature— neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony.

荒原这个地方，眼下与人的性情调一致——既不可怖，又不可恨，也不难看；既不平庸，又不呆板，也不消沉；但和人一样，受到冷落，默默忍耐；它那单调不变的黝黑巨大无比，神秘莫测，尤为奇特。

In other words, Jane Austen doesn't mock snobbery as the behavior of ghastly and contemptible people.

换句话说，珍奥斯汀并不打算嘲讽势利眼， 认为这种行为只会发生在阴险卑鄙的人身上。

After a sleepless night, she looked very ghastly.

经过一个无眠的夜晚，她看起来非常可。

His round blue eyes behind the spectacles were ghastly with terror.

他的近视镜片后面的一对又圆又蓝的眼睛因为恐惧叫人看非常可。

And now a change came in the sickness of my friend's mind. He went from room to room with a hurried step. His face was, if possible, whiter and more ghastly than before, and the light in his eyes had gone.

朋友的神经紊乱发生了变化，他脚步匆促地从一个房间走到另一个房间。本就苍白的脸色更加惨淡、诡异，眼睛里的光亮黯淡了。

If these contractionary forces feed on themselves, Europe's downturn could be ghastly.

如果这些紧缩的力量养活自己，欧洲的经济衰退很可严重。

Some ghastly but well-known episodes recede; others emerge from the shadows.

一些苍白可怖但广为人知的历史片段逐渐模糊，另一些片段从阴影中开始浮现。

But his normally ghastly red-flesh colour was rapidly turning green.

但是他原有的惨白肉色却很快地变成了绿色。

Ghastly to have to sit through it, I should think!

我想都是种折磨！

It means I'm still stuck with this ghastly job.

这下我还得做这份讨厌的工作。

For some reason, only ghost and ghastly kept the h.

出于某种原因，只有“ghost”和“ghastly”保留了“h”。

He's in rather a ghastly mess, I'm afraid.

他现在恐是麻烦缠身啊。

To counteract the malign spell which she imagined poor Eustacia to be working, the boy's mother busied herself with a ghastly invention of superstition, calculated to bring powerlessness, atrophy, and annihilation on any human being against whom it was directed.

为了反击她想像中那可怜的游苔莎施行的魔法，男孩的母亲正忙进行一种可怖的迷信法术，这种法术不管用到谁身上，都会让他浑身乏力、萎缩退化，最终彻底毁灭。

I cocked an ear and listened. Would a sudden outburst of voices tell me that Ned Land's escape plans had just been detected? A ghastly uneasiness stole through me. I tried in vain to recover my composure.

我用心，我竖起耳朵来。是不是有些喊叫声，向我说明尼德·兰的逃走计划突然被发觉了吗？我感觉十分惶恐不安。

Pickett's troops swept forward at any easy trot, through orchard and cornfield, across a meadow and over a ravine. All the time, the enemy's cannon was tearing ghastly holes in their ranks. But on they pressed, grim, irresistible.

皮克特的军队所向披靡。他们穿越果园、玉米地、大草甸，翻越一个又一个山谷。 尽管敌人的炮弹把士兵和战马炸得血肉模糊， 他们还是不为所动，一如既往，锐不可当。

But it abides as an example of profound intolerance to those who believe differently – an intolerance that frequently led to the ghastly spectacle of people going to war for the sake of religion.

但是这是难以容忍不同宗教信仰的例子——这种不容忍经常导致大规模的人们以宗教的名义发动战争。

Their titles either contain action-packed words like " strive" and " ignite" or give birth to some ghastly new portmanteau like " stressilience" or " charismility" .

书的标题要么包含像“奋力”和“点燃”这样动感十足的词语，要么生造出一些可的新复合词，比如“抗压韧性”或“谦逊魅力”。

Some are so ghastly that whenever they are off-screen you long for them to reappear—above all Mrs Bennet (Alison Steadman), a hyperventilating social climber, and Mr Collins (David Bamber), a slimy clergyman.

其中有些人是如此地迷人以至于即使是故事结束，人们也希望他们能够再出现——尤其是一心想攀高枝的班内特太太，和邋邋遢遢的柯林斯牧师。

Yes. I want to spend time in your world. I want to play cricket, I want to eat crumpets and I want to use the word " ghastly" .

是啊。我想在你的世界生活。我想玩板球，我想吃英式脆饼我还想用" 糟糕的" 这个词。