| 英语单词 | horrifying |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['hɒrɪfaɪɪŋ] 美 ['hɔːrɪfaɪɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.令人震惊的;使人毛骨悚然的 动词horrify的现在分词形式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) He followed this up with a few horrifying anecdotes from his own past. (2) It is horrifying to think that students graduate without a thorough understanding of the subject matter. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他接下去讲了几件有关自己过去的令人震惊的轶事。 (2) 学生对主题没有透彻地理解就毕业是令人震惊的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Horrifying things are scary and disturbing. A car crash, a violent scene in a movie, and an exposé on what's really in your fast food hamburger can all be described as horrifying. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Something that scares you to death, like the sound of footsteps upstairs in your dark, empty house or the sight of a bear on the hiking trail, is horrifying. Equally horrifying are things that sicken you, like photographs from a battlefield or the description of a painful dental procedure. Horrifying things inspire horror, originally a Latin word meaning both "dread" and "religious awe," from horrere, "to bristle with fear." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使感到震惊;使毛骨悚然;使产生反感 If someone is horrified, they feel shocked or disgusted, usually because of something that they have seen or heard. [ [V n]
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