atrocious
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英文詞源
- atrocious
- atrocious: [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem *-oc-, *-ox meant ‘looking, appearing’ (Latin oculus ‘eye’ and ferox ‘fierce’ – based on ferus ‘wild’, and source of English ferocious – were formed from it, and it goes back to an earlier Indo-European base which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye).
Combined, they formed atrox, literally ‘of a dark or threatening appearance’, hence ‘gloomy, cruel’. English borrowed it (in the stem form atrōci-) originally in the sense ‘wantonly cruel’.
=> eye, ferocious, inoculate, ocular - atrocious (adj.)
- 1660s, from stem of Latin atrox "fierce, savage, cruel" (see atrocity) + -ous. Colloquial sense "very bad" is late 19c. Related: Atrociously; atrociousness.
雙語例句
- 1. The food here is atrocious.
- 這里的食物難以下咽。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. She speaks French with an atrocious accent.
- 她講法語帶有很難聽的口音。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 3. We work under atrocious conditions.
- 我們在很惡劣的環(huán)境下工作.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. They committed the most atrocious cruelties.
- 他們犯下了極其兇殘的暴行.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. This is simply atrocious!
- 這還了得!
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》