atrocious
英 [ə'trəʊʃəs]***美 [ə'troʃəs]
中文词源
- atrocious
- atrocious: [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem *-oc-, *-ox meant ‘looking, appearing’ (Latin oculus ‘eye’ and ferox ‘fierce’ – based on ferus ‘wild’, and source of English ferocious – were formed from it, and it goes back to an earlier Indo-European base which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye).
Combined, they formed atrox, literally ‘of a dark or threatening appearance’, hence ‘gloomy, cruel’. English borrowed it (in the stem form atrōci-) originally in the sense ‘wantonly cruel’.
=> eye, ferocious, inoculate, ocular - atrocious (adj.)
- 1660s, from stem of Latin atrox "fierce, savage, cruel" (see atrocity) + -ous. Colloquial sense "very bad" is late 19c. Related: Atrociously; atrociousness.
双语例句
- 1. The food here is atrocious.
- 这里的食物难以下咽。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She speaks French with an atrocious accent.
- 她讲法语带有很难听的口音。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. We work under atrocious conditions.
- 我们在很恶劣的环境下工作.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. They committed the most atrocious cruelties.
- 他们犯下了极其凶残的暴行.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. This is simply atrocious!
- 这还了得!
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
