單詞
hideous
英 ['h?d??s]
美
基本信息
- adj. 可怕的；丑惡的
CET6+TEM4GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
副詞:?hideously;
助記提示
1. 諧音“黑得要死”。
中文詞源
hideous 丑陋的
來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)hideus,來(lái)自hisdos,可怕的，恐怖的，丑陋的，拼寫可能受hide影響?；蛑苯觼?lái)自hide,獸皮，引申詞義野獸，野蠻的，丑陋的。
英文詞源
- hideous (adj.)
- c. 1300, "terrifying, horrible, dreadful," from Anglo-French hidous, Old French hideus, earlier hisdos "hideous, horrible, awful, frightening" (11c.; Modern French hideux), from hisda "horror, fear," perhaps of Germanic origin; or else from Vulgar Latin *hispidosus, from Latin hispidus "shaggy, bristly," "[b]ut this presents numerous difficulties" [OED]. Meaning "repulsive" is late 14c.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. His family was subjected to a hideous attack by the gang.
- 他的家人遭到了匪幫的恐怖襲擊。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. It's been a perfectly hideous day.
- 這一天真是糟糕透了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. But was it, in fact, a hideous goof?
- 但事實(shí)上這是否是個(gè)彌天大錯(cuò)？
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Their new colour scheme is hideous!
- 他們新的顏色搭配難看極了！
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. They're not like dogs; they're hideous brutes.
- 它們不像狗, 是丑陋的畜牲.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
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