hideous

发音

英 [ˈhɪdiəs]word uk audio image

美 [ˈhɪdiəs] word us audio image

  • adj.
    令人惊骇的
    极其丑陋的,可怕的
    丑恶的,讨厌的

单词词源

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。

双语例句

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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