Dire 考法 例】A Stock Direful Causing Urgent 1】Adj.不吉利的，不祥的

【例】a dire forecast of a plunge in stock prices股市大跌不祥的预测

【近】baleful, direful, foreboding, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening

【反】propitious , unthreatening 吉利的，吉祥的

【例】a series of dire tremors that hinted at a volcanic eruption 一系列暗示火山爆发的恐怖的震动

【近】alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying

【例】There is a dire need for food and medicine in the famine-stricken country在闹饥荒的国家迫切需要食物和药品。

【近】immediate, burning, compelling, critical, crying, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent

【反】n.onurgent, noncritical 不迫切的

【例】With stock prices steadily falling, these are dire days on the trading floor股价稳步走低，交易大厅一片悲惨的景象。

【近】cheerless, chill, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, glum, lugubrious, miserable, morose, saturnine, somber, sullen, sunless, wretched

【反】bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, festive, gay, sunshiny 愉快的