| 单词 | 可怕 |
| 释义 | 〔also〕The cellar was dark and forbidding; moreover, I knew a family of mice had nested there.这个地窖阴森可怕；而且我知道那儿有一窝老鼠。〔dragon〕Something very formidable or dangerous.可怕或危险的东西〔curdle〕The blood in my veins curdled at the horrific sight.看到这一可怕情景时，我血管中的血似乎凝固了〔ghastly〕As her illness worsened her skin took on a pallid, greenish, lurid appearance. More often the term describes what shocks because of its terrible and ghastly nature: 疾病使她的皮肤呈现出一种苍白的、绿色的、可怕的样子。 这个词更多用来形容因为本性的可怕和恐惧而令人震惊： 〔gruesome〕Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking:令人厌恶的，可憎的：引起恐惧和憎恶的；可怕和惊人的：〔ghastly〕gruesome evidence of human sacrifice;人类牺牲的可怕证据；〔terribly〕In a terrible manner:可怕地，可怖地：一种非常可怖的样子：〔weird〕"At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold" (Robert Louis Stevenson). “在夜幕降临时，沼泽里的东西看起来阴森可怕而且古怪” （罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森）。〔prevent〕Only quick thinking on the pilot's part averted a disastrous accident.只有这位飞行员的机智才能阻止这样可怕事件的发生。〔comet〕Comets have been feared throughout much of human history,and even in our own time their goings and comings receive great attention.Perhaps a comet might seem less awesome if we realized that our name for it is based on a figurative resemblance between it and human beings.This figurative name is recorded first in the works of Aristotle,in which he useskomē, the Greek word for "hair of the head,” to mean "luminous tail of a comet.” Aristotle then uses the derived wordkomētēs, "wearing long hair,” as a noun meaning "comet.” The Greek word was adopted into Latin ascomētēs, which was refashioned in Late Latin and given the formcomēta, furnishing Old English with comēta, the earliest English ancestor of our wordcomet. 在大多数人类历史期间，人们害怕彗星，甚至在我们自己的时代彗星的到来与离去仍受到很大注意。如果我们认识到我们对它的名字是基于它和人在外形上的相似性，也许彗星看起来就不太可怕了。比喻的名字首先记录在亚里士多德的著作中，他使用的kome 是希腊语中意为“头发”的词，表示“彗星明亮的尾巴。 然后亚里士多德使用导出的单词kometes “戴长发”，作为名词意义的"comet"。 希腊单词被采用到拉丁语为cometes， 它再形成晚期拉丁语，给定形式为cometa， 以 cometa 的形式出现于老式英语， 这就是我们单词comet 的最早英语原形 〔lack〕"In the terrible, beautiful age of my prime,/I lacked for sweet linen but never for time" (E.B. White).“在我可怕而又美丽的壮年岁月中，／我需要的是亚麻布而从来不是时间” （E．B．怀特）〔noticeable〕"Defenders of the pit bull always seem to miss the salient point that it is the ferocity of the bite, not the number of bites, that has made the dog so feared today" (Sports Illustrated).“工头的保护者们似乎总是忽略最关键的一点，是咬的凶猛而不是咬的次数才使得狗如此可怕” （斯鲍兹·艾拉斯托德）。〔ghastly〕macabre stories about tortures conceived by a madman.关于由一个疯子构想出来的可怕故事。〔patience〕"No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out" (Joseph Conrad).“没有恐惧能比饥饿更可怕，任何耐力也难以克服饥饿” （约瑟夫·康拉德）。〔honesty〕"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful" (Samuel Johnson).“没有知识的正直感软弱而无用，缺乏正直感的知识危险而可怕” （萨缪尔·约翰逊）。〔moan〕the eerie moan of the night wind.夜风的可怕哀鸣 |
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