| 正面 | 10583.monstrous 英 ['mɒnstrəs]美 ['mɑnstrəs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. block, balcony => balk => balky.2. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => PIE *bhlug- => block.3. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => Proto-Germanic *balk- => balk, balcony.4. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" (cf. Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost").5. 木板所起的作用不外乎就是隔离、阻挡和支撑、支持两个作用。6. => ridge, bank.adj. 巨大的；怪异的；荒谬的；畸形的 例句： 1. "It's monstrous!" Jackie fumed.“真是太过分了！”杰姬气冲冲地说。 monstrous 怪物一般的，丑陋的来自monster,怪物。即像怪物的，丑陋的。 monstrous (adj.)mid-15c., "unnatural, deviating from the natural order, hideous," from Middle French monstrueux, from Latin monstruosus "strange, unnatural, monstrous," from monstrum (see monster). Meaning "enormous" is from c. 1500; that of "outrageously wrong" is from 1570s. Earlier form monstruous (late 14c., from Old French monstruous) was "very common in the 16th c." [OED]." |