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首页英语词典luridlurid的意思

lurid

英 ['l(j)ʊərɪd] 美['lʊrɪd]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词terrible sensational melodramatic

adj. 可怕的，耸人听闻的；火烧似的；苍白的；血红的；华丽而庸俗的

GRE低频词扩展词汇

词态变化

副词: luridly;

中文词源

lurid 苍白的，骇人的，妖冶的，俗艳的

来自拉丁语luror,苍白的，引申词义耸人听闻的，骇人的，后来形容化妆妖冶的，俗艳的。

英英释意

1. horrible in fierceness or savagery;: "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"

2. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;: "lurid details of the accident"

3. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke;: "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"

4. ghastly pale;: "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"

英文词源

lurid (adj.): 1650s, "pale," from Latin luridus "pale yellow, ghastly," of uncertain origin, perhaps cognate with Greek khloros (see Chloe). Meaning "glowing in the darkness" is from 1727. The figurative sense of "sensational" is first attested 1850. Related: Luridly.

实用场景例句

lurid headlines: 骇人的标题

The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.: 这份报纸对这起凶杀案骇人听闻的细节描述得淋漓尽致。

...lurid accounts of Claire's sexual exploits...: 有关克莱尔的性生活史露骨的描述

Some reports have contained lurid accounts of deaths and mutilations.: 一些报道含有对死状和肢解的令人毛骨悚然的描述。

She took care to paint her toe nails a lurid red or orange.: 她精心地把脚指甲涂成妖艳的红色或橙色。

The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.: 这份报纸对这起凶杀案耸人听闻的细节描写得淋漓尽致.

His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated, but they had a tremendous impact.: 他对金融界腐化的揭发是过分渲染和高度夸张的, 但确曾产生巨大影响.

His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated.: 他对金融界腐化的揭发是过份渲染和高度夸张的.

She gave us a lurid description of the birth.: 关于分娩,她向我们做了令人毛骨悚然的描述.

Moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminescence.: 月光使这座雕塑发出苍白的光亮.

Out falls a sheaf of lurid pictures including two graphic images of naked women.: 在一捆骇人听闻的图片中包括了几张裸体女人的图片.

At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement.: 起先,那只是闪现在石板路上的灰黄色的星星之火.

You could hardly a magazine or newspaper without a dozen of their lurid ads.: 几乎没有哪张报纸哪本杂志没有他们那耸人听闻的药品广告.

The lurid sunset puts a red light on their faces.: 血红一般的夕阳映红了他们的脸.

Lurid crimes. At other times it merely refers to glaring and usually unsavory sensationalism.: 耸人听闻的罪行. 该词极少用来指怒目而视的并且通常是令人不快的危言耸听.

Last night I met a wild and lurid , gruesome and grisly bandit.: 昨晚我遇到了一个野蛮而可怕, 可憎而令人毛骨悚然的强盗.

Like spilt quicksilver, hoarse growls rolled over the lurid weeds like thunders.: 低沉嘶哑的吼声像散落的水银滚过红色的草.

Some Western journalists like to colour their stories up with lurid details of people's private lives.: 一些西方记者喜欢用人们私生活中耸人听闻的细节来渲染自己的报道.

Jack London's is the better novel in being rather less lurid and rather more consistently grim.: 杰克·伦敦的那一部略胜一筹,因为它所描写的凶兆大致上顺理成章,而且不那样悲惨.

She was wearing a lurid orange and green blouse.: 她穿着一件花哨的橙绿相间的衬衫.

The Washington gossip circuit was awash with increasingly lurid accounts of his frequently bizarre sexual behaviour.: 华盛顿的绯闻圈里不断积累着关于他频繁奇特的性行为的传闻.

He is watching TV, the screen casting its lurid blue light across his face.: 他在看电视, 银屏红蓝色的的光投在他的脸上.

Some reports have contained lurid accounts of deaths and mutilations.: 一些报道含有对死状和肢解的令人毛骨悚然的描述。

The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.: 这份报纸对这起凶杀案骇人听闻的细节描述得淋漓尽致。

She took care to paint her toe nails a lurid red or orange.: 她精心地把脚指甲涂成妖艳的红色或橙色。

The King had been putting about lurid rumours for months.: 国王连续数月都在散布骇人听闻的谣言。