horrid
英['h?r?d]
美['h?r?d]
- adj. 可怕的；恐怖的；極討厭的
助記提示
1. horr- + -id.
2. => frightful, horrible, causing horror.
3. => unpleasant, offensive.
中文詞源
horrid 討厭的，厭惡的
來自拉丁語horrere,恐懼，顫抖，詞源同horror.引申詞義討厭的，不友好的。
英文詞源
- horrid (adj.)
- early 15c., "hairy, shaggy, bristling," from Latin horridus "bristly, prickly, rough, horrid, frightful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Meaning "horrible, causing horror" is from c. 1600. Sense weakened 17c. to "unpleasant, offensive."
[W]hile both [horrible and horrid] are much used in the trivial sense of disagreeable, horrible is still quite common in the graver sense inspiring horror, which horrid tends to lose .... [Fowler]
Related: Horridly.
雙語例句
- 1. I love both my parents, but they're horrid to each other.
- 我愛我的父母，但他們彼此之間極為不和。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. What a horrid smell!
- 怎么這么臭！
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I must have been a horrid little girl.
- 我一定是個人見人煩的小女孩。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The winter was horrid.
- 冬天天氣極糟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Don't be so horrid to your brother.
- 別對你弟弟那么兇。
來自《權威詞典》