horrible

• adj. 可怕的；极讨厌的

来自拉丁语horrere,恐惧，颤抖，词源同horror.引申词义恐怖的，可怕的。

1. provoking horror;

"an atrocious automobile accident"

"a frightful crime of decapitation"

"an alarming, even horrifying, picture"

"war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill

"an ugly wound"

horrible

horrible: [14] The Latin verb horrēre was used for hair standing on end or bristling. A common cause of this phenomenon is of course fear, and so in due course horrēre came to mean ‘tremble, shake, be filled with fear and revulsion’. The latter sense has been carried through into English in the derivatives horrible, horrid [16], and horror [14]. (Horrid, incidentally, from Latin horridus, was originally used in English in the etymological sense ‘shaggy, hairy, bristling’ – ‘a rugged attire, hirsute head, horrid beard’, Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy 1621 – but this did not survive beyond the early 19th century.) The Old French descendant of horridus was ord ‘filthy’, from a derivative of which English gets ordure [14].
=> horrid, horror, ordure

horrible (adj.)

c. 1300, from Old French horrible, orrible (12c.) "horrible, repugnant, terrifying," from Latin horribilis "terrible, fearful, dreadful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Used as a mere intensifier from mid-15c.

afraid, fearful, awful, dreadful, frightful, terrible, horrible, terrific, appalling

这些形容词均含"害怕的，怕的"之意。

afraid：指由于胆小或怯懦而不敢说或做某事。

fearful：普通用词，既指外界情况变化而引起的恐惧，又指来自内心的害怕与焦虑。

awful：指威严得令人害怕或敬畏，有一定的感情色彩。

dreadful：指使人非常恐惧，毛骨悚然，也使人感到讨厌而退缩。

frightful：指使人陷入短暂的惊恐或产生毛骨悚然的感觉。

terrible：侧重指给人以长久的惊骇，极端的恐怖，令人难以忍受。

horrible：指因骇人听闻的丑恶而令人毛骨悚然，着重厌恶的成分多于害怕。

terrific：多指外表、形状或力量等的可怕。

appalling：指既令害怕又使人惊异、胆寒。

The more horrible the school circumstances, the more important pleasure is to achieving any educational success.

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Parking in this city is a horrible nightmare.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

In the morning on the way to school, it's horrible.

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To the author, it seemed to be a horrible turn of events that someone else had got a basket of the same kind.

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Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her attitude.

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The experiment went horribly wrong.

实验弄得一塌糊涂。

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It was horribly painful.

疼极了。

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What a horrible thing to say!

讲这话太不近人情啦！

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My sister was being horrible to me all day.

我姐姐一整天都对我很凶。

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a horrible man

讨厌的人

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a horrible crime/nightmare

骇人听闻的罪行；可怕的噩梦

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I've got a horrible feeling she lied to us.

我感觉到很不愉快，她对我们说了谎。

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The coffee tasted horrible.

这种咖啡难喝极了。

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horrible weather/children/shoes

糟透了的天气 / 孩子 / 鞋

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Unless you respect other people's religions, horrible mistakes and conflict will occur.

如果不尊重别人的宗教信仰，就会祷下大错，酿成冲突。

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Still the horrible shrieking came out of his mouth.

他的嘴里还是发出了恐怖的尖叫声。

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That seems like a horrible mess that will drag on for years...

看起来那像是个会拖延多年的大烂摊子。

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...a horrible small boy.

讨厌的小男孩

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The record sounds horrible.

唱片难听极了。

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That is a horrible accident.

那是一次可怕的事故.

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How does nightmare do ceaselessly? How did I see horrible book look?

恶梦不断怎么办 啊 ?是不是我看恐怖书看多了 呀 ?

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The incidents of sexual violence laid bare the horrible contortion of human nature inflicted by war.

性暴力事件揭示了战争对人性的极端扭曲.

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Of course Caspian's ship was not that horrible thing, a galley rowed by slaves.

当然嘉斯宾的船没恐怖到要靠奴隶划船行进.

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The game is a simple, playful enactment of a horrible scene that might occur in accidents.

该游戏玩法简单 、 逼真,演绎了事故发生的紧张场面.

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Clerks and boss: ( in chorus ) Ah? That's horrible!

职员和老板: ( 异口同声 ) 啊? 糟糕!

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They can't forget the horrible story of that vally.

他们忘不了关于那山谷的可怕故事.

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Quarrel is not terrible, horrible a long period of the Cold War.

吵架其实并不可怕, 可怕的是长时间的冷战.

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The sight was so horrible that Laura changed colour from fear.

这景象如此可怕,劳拉不由大惊失色.

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This is a horrible monster.

这是一个可怕的怪物.

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