hideous
pronunciation
UK [ˈhɪdiəs]
US [ˈhɪdiəs]
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- adj.
- 令人惊骇的
- 极其丑陋的，可怕的
- 丑恶的，讨厌的
- 媸
Word Origin
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。
Example
- 1. The answer is that he faced a truly hideous dilemma .
- 答案是，他面临一种非常可怕的两难处境。
- 2. 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。
- 3. But saddam hussein 's vaunted weapons of mass destruction turned out to be a chimera and the cost in american and especially iraqi lives has been hideous .
- 而萨达姆.侯赛因吹嘘的大规模杀伤性武器最后不过是幻梦一场，但美伊两国特别是伊拉克付出了骇人听闻的生命代价。
- 4. Dorian , who has hidden the picture in his attic , shows basil the now hideous face , and kills him .
- 道林把画隐藏在阁楼里，对basil露出狰狞的面孔，并且杀害了他。
- 5. Certainly , and we insist upon this point , he had not yielded without resistance to that monster , to that infamous angel , to that hideous hero , who enraged almost as much as he amazed him .
- 当然，我们再说一遍，他并非毫无抗拒地就向这个使他既愤慨又惊愕的怪物，这个令人厌恶的天使，这个丑恶的英雄投降。
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