Secrecy fosters suspicions that the contents are dreadful.

这种神秘引发了怀疑，报告的内容可能骇人。

“Those stories are appalling, just appalling.”

这些故事骇人，人震惊。

This is quite shocking! He deserves to be publicly disgraced.

“这真是骇人！应该公开地叫他丢丢脸。”

When we first heard about these numbers, they sounded a bit alarmist.

当我们最初到这些数字的时候，可能会觉得有些骇人。

Sierra Leone's president says the numbers are staggering.

塞拉利昂的总统表示，性侵案数目骇人。

Now, I realize that's another shocking statement.

嗯，我知道这个说法有点骇人。

“It is really shocking, ” he said, “that this happened in our country.”

“这样的事件竟然发生在我们的国家，”他说，“这简直骇人。”

For Sariya Al-bitar, an architect in Syria's war-torn city of Idlib, the message was devastating.

萨里塔·阿尔·比塔尔是一名建筑师, 生活在叙利亚的一个饱受战乱蹂躏的城市伊德利卜市，对于他来说，这则消息骇人。

And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

今天我们在这里集会，就是要描述这些骇人的情况。

Among the most terrifying acts was the kidnapping of thousands of women and girls.

而IS最骇人的暴行当属其绑架数以千计的妇女和女孩。

An inquiry found the institutions had what he called appalling mortality rates.

一项调查发现，这些机构的死亡率骇人。

" But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things."

“可是伯纳，你说的话太骇人了。”

Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.

我主弗洛依德是第一个揭露出家庭生活有骇人的危险的人。

A spokesman in the city for the International Red Cross has described appalling conditions there.

在该市的一名国际红十字会发言人描述了那里骇人的情况。

Charles Manson, who masterminded gruesome murders in Los Angeles nearly half-a-century ago, died Sunday night.

杀人狂魔查尔斯·曼森周六晚间死亡，近半个世纪前，曼森在洛杉矶制造骇人的血案。

But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas.

但巴勒斯坦人民的不满不能为哈马斯骇人的袭击辩护。

Lurid tales of financial malfeasance in the Vatican are making headlines.

梵蒂冈金融渎职这一骇人的消息成为头条新。

A spokesman for Save the Children described scenes of appalling depravation.

救助儿童基金会一名发言人描述了骇人的灾难景象。

The ghoulish story of Gilberto Valle has shocked hardened lawenforcement officials here.

巴耶骇人的故事震惊了身经百战的执法官员。

Another, more recent use as an adjective can mean shocking, outrageous, or intense.

它的另一种最近的用法是表示人震惊、骇人的或激烈。