The house was left in a shocking state.

那座房子破败得不成样子了。

"Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth," ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.

维多利亚时代流传着一则箴言：“造物主赋予人类嘴唇以遮掩牙齿”。这暗示了在严格意义上的牙科学诞生之前，口腔的卫生状况往往非常糟糕。

The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.

厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。

The rage in Libya, a relatively affluent and well-educated state by Arab standards, has been especially shocking; Qaddafi's citizens obviously view him not as a crank but a monster.

利比亚按阿拉伯的标准来说相对富裕而开化，这个国家的怒潮尤其令人震惊；卡扎菲的人民显然不是把他看成怪人，而是恶魔。

That is a shocking statement, because basically, there is nothing— literally nothing—in the deep dreamless state.

这是一句很惊人的话，因为基本上，无梦深睡中是什么也不存在的。

Upon his return Sri Prahlada had told us shocking stories of the state of affairs in a Russian hospital.

施瑞帕拉德回来以后，给我们讲述了令人惊骇的俄罗斯医院里的轶事。

First, it proved indubitably that she and her husband occupied separate rooms, in itself a shocking enough state of affairs.

第一，它毋庸置疑地证实她跟丈夫是分房睡的，这本身就是骇人听闻的了。