单词
horror
英 ['h?r?]
美['h?r?]
基本信息
- n. 惊骇；惨状；极端厌恶；令人恐怖的事物
CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中频词常用词汇
词态变化
复数:?horrors;
中文词源
horror 厌恶，恐惧
来自拉丁语horrere,因恐惧而毛发竖立，颤抖，来自PIE*ghers,竖立的毛发，硬毛，词源同hair.引申词义厌恶，恐惧。
英文词源
- horror (n.)
- early 14c., from Old French horror (12c., Modern French horreur) and directly from Latin horror "dread, veneration, religious awe," a figurative use, literally "a shaking, trembling, shudder, chill," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (cognates: Sanskrit harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," Latin eris (genitive) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough"). As a genre in film, 1934. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition.
双语例句
- 1. Somehow he tells these stories without a note of horror.
- 不知为什么他讲这些故事时一点都不害怕。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt.
- 雷吉的反应是又羞愤又害怕，和米奇的感觉一样。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. When she saw him, she let out a cry of horror.
- 她看见他时吓得大叫一声。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. This novel is not science fiction, nor is it Gothic horror.
- 这本小说既非科幻小说亦非哥特派恐怖小说。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The media is full of shock-horror headlines about under-age crime.
- 媒体上充斥着各种关于未成年人犯罪的骇人听闻的新闻标题。
来自柯林斯例句
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