grue

vi. 发抖 n. 战栗

发音

US /ɡɹuː/

词形变化

grues 复数 grued grueing grues 三单 grues gruing gruing 现在分词 grueing 现在分词 grued 过去式 grued 过去分词

别名

grew

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A shiver, a shudder.

    苏格兰

    A Grue of Ice

  2. 1.

    Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.

    不可数

    The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work

    There was grue everywhere after the accident

    1990, John DeChancie, Castle War! Incarnadine had to be quick with the sword. Huge wings flapped in time with explosions of grue, and the stink of burnt flesh and feathers filled the air.

    Carrie is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.

    She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue, better than I.”

    Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.

  3. 1.

    A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.

  4. 1.

    The property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

    不可数 哲学
  5. 2.

    A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

    不可数 语言学
  6. 1.

    Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.

    俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

    苏格兰 不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

    哲学
  2. 2.

    Of a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

    青

    绿蓝

    语言学

相关短语

grue jay grue jays

词源

From Middle English gruen, probably from Middle Low German gruwen or Middle Dutch gruwen (compare Dutch gruwen), both from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).

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