| 英语单词 | horrid |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['hɒrɪd] 美 ['hɔːrɪd] |
| 中文释义 | adj.可怕的;恐怖的;讨厌的;很不友好的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) We had to live in a horrid little flat. (2) He's a horrid little man. (3) I'm not going to the horrid dinner-party. (4) Don't be so horrid to your brother. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我们只得住在一套可怕的小公寓房子里。 (2) 他是个讨厌的家伙。 (3) 我不打算去参加这次讨厌的宴会。 (4) 别对你弟弟那么凶。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Horrid things are absolutely dreadful — they horrify or disgust you. A horrid dream can make you wake with a gasp and lie there with your heart pounding. |
| vocabulary扩展 | You might cover your eyes during a particularly horrid scene in a scary movie, or skip past the horrid photos of a war zone in the newspaper. Things are also horrid when they're just plain bad: "That wallpaper in your bedroom is absolutely horrid." In the 1400s, horrid meant "hairy, shaggy, or bristling." The word stems from a Latin root, horrere, "to bristle with fear." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]极讨厌的;极糟的 If you describe something as horrid, you mean that it is very unpleasant indeed. [INFORMAL 非正式]
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](人)招人讨厌的,使人极不愉快的 If you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very unpleasant way towards other people. [oft ADJ [INFORMAL 非正式]
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