hideous
英 ['hɪdɪəs]
美
- adj. 可怕的；丑恶的
词态变化
副词: hideously;
助记提示
1. 谐音“黑得要死”。
中文词源
hideous 丑陋的
来自古法语hideus,来自hisdos,可怕的，恐怖的，丑陋的，拼写可能受hide影响。或直接来自hide,兽皮，引申词义野兽，野蛮的，丑陋的。
英英释意
- 1. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
- "subjected to outrageous cruelty"
- "a hideous pattern of injustice"
- "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
- 2. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying;
- "a hideous scar"
- "a repulsive mask"
英文词源
- 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.
实用场景例句
- His face was hideously deformed.
- 他的脸严重变形。
牛津词典
- a hideous crime
- 骇人听闻的罪行
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- The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.
- 整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
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- Their new colour scheme is hideous!
- 他们新的颜色搭配难看极了！
牛津词典
- a hideous face/building/dress
- 丑陋的面孔 / 建筑物 / 衣服
牛津词典
- It's been a perfectly hideous day.
- 这一天真是糟糕透了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- His family was subjected to a hideous attack by the gang...
- 他的家人遭到了匪帮的恐怖袭击。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...hideous new Europe architecture, and horrible metal sculptures.
- 奇丑无比的新式欧洲建筑和糟糕透顶的金属雕塑
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She saw a hideous face at the window and screamed.
- 她在窗口看到了一张极丑陋的脸，吓得尖叫了起来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She calls the new opera house " that hideous erection "
- 她把新歌剧院叫作 “ 那讨厌的庞然大物 ”
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- That's a bad copy, and even then they managed to make it look hideous.
- 这是一个糟糕的复制, 他们把它弄得很难看.
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- This is why those cemeteries all over Europe, which obsess some among us, are hideous.
- 这是为什么,那些坟墓遍布欧洲大陆丑陋无比并让我们中的一些人心神不宁的原因.
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- I think the colour scheme they've chosen is hideous.
- 我觉得他们选用的颜色配合起来难看极了.
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- The old woman had such hideous face that the girls couldn't even get close to her.
- 这位老妇人的面孔长的如此丑陋,以至于女孩没都不敢接近她.
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- At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization.
- 最坏的时候, 这种保护会导致新的和可怕的殖民地.
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- A hideous monster attacked the helpless villagers.
- 有个丑恶的怪物袭击了手无寸铁的村民.
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- Standard tooling often forces a waterfall model, and frankly waterfall is hideous.
- 标准工具普遍强制一种瀑布式模式, 而说实话,瀑布式模式是十分糟糕的.
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- Every article on the breakfast table was fetched away with a hideous crash.
- 早餐桌上的每件物品随着可怕的撞击声移动了位置.
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- People were all stunned by his hideous brutality.
- 人们被他那骇人听闻的野蛮行为震惊了.
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- He played in Three Kings with George Clooney and in Hideous Kinky with Kate Winslet.
- 他在[三王]拌演乔治克鲁尼和[可怕的纠缠]拌演凯特温斯莱特.
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- No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.
- 以往的瘟疫从没象这次那么恐怖, 那么骇人听闻.
辞典例句
- The beak on his face is hideous.
- 他的鼻子很难看.
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- Ireland these years produces poets and novelists at the same rate as hideous bungalows.
- 这些年来,爱尔兰盛产诗人和小说家,其速度可与建造丑陋的平房相媲美.
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- Hideous: really ugly, something awful to look at.
- 可怕的: 非常丑陋, 看上去很可怕的东西.
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- Art thou afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?
- 你难道不怕睡魇和凶梦 吗 ?
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- The whole effect was hideous, petty , lugubrious, and narrow.
- 所有这一切都是丑恶 、 卑陋 、 黯淡 、 无意义的.
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- He suffered a hideous torment when the enemy caught him.
- 敌人抓到他后,他受到可怕的折磨.
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