ARBUTHNOT. It is the sort of love I have for Gerald. Do you think that terrible? Well it is terrible. All love is terrible. All love is a tragedy. I loved you once, Lord Illingworth. Oh, what a tragedy for a woman to have loved you!英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
"Ah, our young girls; you don't know them. They are terrible, terrible!" said Koupriane, lighting a big cigar. "Much more terrible than the boys. In good families the boys still enjoy themselves; but the girls - they read! It goes to their heads. They are ready for anything; they know neither father nor mother. Ah, you are a child, you cannot comprehend. Two lovely eyes, a melancholy air, a soft, low voice, and you are captured - you believe you have before you simply an inoffensive, good little girl.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
"I had a terrible dream once," she went on; "the most terrible dream ever I had. I dreamt that the mountains had all been taken down, and that I stood on a plain to which there was no end. The sky was burn- ing up, and the grass scorched brown from the heat, and it was twisting as if it were in pain. And animals, but no other person save myself, only wild things, were crouch- ing and looking up at that sky. They could not run because there was no place to which to go."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Something terrible has happened. I don't know what it is. But Madre is-- No, I can't put it. Oh, /do come/--please--please come! VERE
"Come the /quickest/ way."
"Something terrible has happened." He knew at once what it was. The walls of the cell in which he had enclosed his friend had crumbled away. The spirit which for so long had rested upon a lie had been torn from its repose, had been scourged to its feet to face the fierce light of truth. How would it face the truth?英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
My reader is too intelligent not to divine that she was steeling herself to a terrible interview with Zoe Vizard--terrible mainly on account of the anguish she knew she must inflict.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible courage. I had that courage.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
So I'm sorry. I'm terrible. I'm a terrible person. I'm terrible.美剧 · 《Friends》
And as I do, at the end of each one of these terrible, terrible dates, and as I do, at the end of each one of these terrible, terrible dates,演讲 · 《How I hacked online dating ~ Amy Webb》