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，他们在校门看到的一幕几乎让他们心跳停止：四个孤零零的书包散在地上。
How could you possibly prove to yourself that you are not in the kind of nightmarish situation Descartes describes?
你如何能够向自己证明自己不是处于笛卡尔所形容的那种噩梦般的境况中呢？
In the process he provides a timely reminder of how quickly a utopian vision can be transformed into a nightmarish reality.
他在书中适时地提醒人们，一个乌托邦式愿景可以多么迅速地变形为噩梦般的现实。

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.