Lurid
['l(j)ʊərɪd] or ['lʊrɪd]
解释:
(adj.) shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; 'a lurid sunset'; 'lurid flames' .
(adj.) ghastly pale; 'moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence' .
(adj.) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; 'lurid details of the accident' .
(adj.) horrible in fierceness or savagery; 'lurid crimes'; 'a lurid life' .
编辑:纽曼--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
(a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
(a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
杰夫编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. Gloomy, murky, ghastly, dismal.
整理:希欧多尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Murky, lowering, {[wan]?}, dismal, gloomy
ANT:Bright, luminous
海尔格校对
解释:
adj. ghastly pale wan: ghastly and sensational: gloomy.—adv. Lū′ridly.
录入:洛根
例句:
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- How safe seemed the darkness and chill of an unkindled hearth when no lurid reflection from terror crimsoned its desolation! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The fires, whose lurid, sullen light had been visible for miles, blazed fiercely up, in the great works and factories of the town. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- When he drew nearer he perceived it to be a spring van, ordinary in shape, but singular in colour, this being a lurid red. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- She gave him an affectionate good-night, and went out with him to the door, whence the fires of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- With scarcely a parting glance I turned my eyes again toward Mars, lifted my hands toward his lurid rays, and waited. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
录入:洛根