horrible

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #1524 ★★☆☆☆

a. 可怕的, 遭透的, 极讨厌的

发音

UK /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
US /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/
US /-b(ə)ɫ/
IE /ˈhɑɹ.ɪ.bəl/
其它 /ˈhɑɹ.ɪ.bəl/

词形变化

horribles 复数 horribles horribler 比较级 horribler horriblest more horrible 比较级 horriblest 最高级 most horrible 最高级

别名

'orrible

教材释义与例句

形容词

可怕的;极讨厌的

very bad - used, for example, about things you see, taste, or smell, or about the weather

The weather has been really horrible all week.

整个星期天气都很糟。

a horrible smell

极难闻的气味

The food looked horrible, but it tasted OK.

那食物看上去很糟,可吃起来还不错。

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

  2. 2.

    A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

adj. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

    可怕的

    可畏

  2. 2.

    Tremendously bad.

    糟透

    糟糕

    著灾

词汇关系

词源

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

来源:wiktionary