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gruesome
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🇺🇸 /ɡɹˈusʌm/
🇬🇧 /ˈɡɹuːsm̩/
形容某事物恐怖、骇人且令人感到强烈不适,常带有血腥、惨烈或令人毛骨悚然的意味。
💡 记忆钩子
把“恐怖”想成不只是吓人,而是惨烈得让人不忍直视:普通的可怕进一步变成令人作呕、震惊的骇人场面,这就是 gruesome 的核心感觉。
📝 学习建议
- 不要把 gruesome 只理解成一般的“可怕”;它通常比 frightening 更惨烈、更令人不适。
- 它和表示“粗俗、恶心或糟糕”的 gross 有关联的联想,但 gruesome 专门强调骇人、惨烈的恐怖感。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 骇人惨烈的;令人毛骨悚然的📖 指某事物恐怖得近乎惨烈或血腥,使人震惊、反感,甚至不忍观看。它把普通的“可怕”推进了一步,突出令人战栗和不适的感觉。💡 常见结构是“gruesome + 场面、故事、细节、发现”等名词,也可说“a gruesome murder”或“gruesome details”。这个词通常用于新闻、犯罪、恐怖故事和描述事故的语境,语气较强;不要用来泛指任何让人害怕的事,也不要误当作“很糟糕”的普通形容词。The documentary showed some gruesome images of the accident.这部纪录片展示了事故中一些令人毛骨悚然的画面。The detective described the gruesome details of the crime.侦探描述了这起犯罪案件中骇人听闻的细节。
gruesomer
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gruesomest
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📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 1 组
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; ; ; ; ; ;
同义词集:
ghastly
grim
grisly
gruesome
macabre
sick
ghastly wounds
the grim aftermath of the bombing
the grim task of burying the victims
a grisly murder
gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
macabre tortures conceived by madmen
近似: alarming
🌳 词源
源自表示“战栗、发抖”的词根,后来形成“令人战栗的、骇人的”之意;与北欧及日耳曼语中表示“残酷、可怕”的相关词同源。
From grue (“(archaic except Northern England, Scotland) to be frightened; to shudder with fear”) + -some (suffix meaning ‘characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree’ forming adjectives and nouns), probably popularized by the Scottish novelist and poet Walter Scott (1771–1832): see, for example, the 1816 quotation.
cognates
* Danish grusom (“cruel; horrible”)
* Middle Dutch grousaem, grusaem (modern Dutch gruwzaam (“cruel; gruesome”))
* Middle High German grûsam, grûwesam (modern German grausam (“cruel”))
* Norwegian Bokmål grusom (“cruel; horrible”)
🔄 变式
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