Horror
['hɒrə] or ['hɔrɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) something that inspires dislike; something horrible; 'the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him'.
(noun.) intense and profound fear.
雅克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
伊恩校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Fright, affright, alarm, fear, dread, awe, terror, dismay, consternation, panic.[2]. Abomination, abhorrence, detestation, disgust, loathing, hatred, antipathy.[3]. (Med.) Shuddering, horripilation.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fear, dread, shrinking, loathing, detestation, awe, dismay, fright, terror,excessive_fear
ANT:Love, attraction, allurement, enticement
欧文校對
解釋/意思:
n. a shuddering: excessive fear: that which excites horror.—adjs. Horr′or-strick′en -struck struck with horror.—The horrors extreme depression: delirium tremens.
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例句/造句/用法:
- And here, to the great horror of Mr. John Smauker, Sam Weller began to whistle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr. Godfrey. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I share this horror when certain socialists begin to propound their schemes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You must know I have a vast dislike to puppiesquite a horror of them. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He turned red and started back from her with a look of great alarm and horror. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- For what seemed hours the eyes approached gradually closer and closer, until I felt that I should go mad for the horror of it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- As he spoke, a woman's shrill scream--a scream which vibrated with a frenzy of horror--burst from the thick, green clump of bushes in front of us. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Before I could move, before I could draw my breath after that discovery, I was horror-struck by a heavy thump against the door from the inside. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It amounted almost to horror, to a sort of dream terror--his horror of being observed by some other people. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Then for the first time the horror of my situation came in its full force. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- My uncle will be full of horror, weakness, precipitation; and that is the only expedient which will suggest itself to him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- There are such lots of horrors this morning, she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Thy language, answered Rowena, hath in its indifferent bluntness something which cannot be reconciled with the horrors it seems to express. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I affirm that the remedy which that admirable lady has proposed is the only remedy that will spare you the horrors of public scandal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And its heart-break and its horrors, can they be told? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I'll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Another, and stronger, please; if I don't keep awake now I shall see horrors tonight--perfect horrors! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their _acme_, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Bertha can already make her believe anything she pleases--and I'm afraid she's begun, my poor child, by insinuating horrors about you. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- You force yourself into horrors, and put a mill-stone of beastly memories round your neck. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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