•The food was bad and the service was dreadful.食物很差劲，服务也很糟糕。

•I was beginning to think I'd made a dreadful mistake.我开始觉得自己犯了个大错误。

•The news report was so dreadful that I just had to switch it off.那个新闻报道太可怕了，我只好关上电视机不看了。