我那短促的睡眠, 简直是一种要命的痛苦和折磨.My moment of sleep is a great wrench, an agony.这是庸俗 、 下流 、 平凡得要命的.It was material, sordid, deadly common - place.这要命的仗一直打下去,几时出得了头呀.There's no future in the whole goddamned war....

“要命的”的英语可以翻译为：awful，extreme，frigging，perishing ...