駭人：讓人臉色發白的那一種壞
這一支就是核心畫面本身，壞到帶著道德與情感的衝擊。
shocking, unacceptable · adjective · C1
Very unpleasant and shocking, especially about conditions or situations that people or animals should not have to live with.
駭人的
核心畫面
One way to picture it: something so bad that it makes you go pale and freeze for a second — the reaction comes before the words do.
你看到某個東西，臉一下子白了、整個人愣住——appalling 說的其實是那個「倒抽一口氣」的反應。它不是單純評分低…更多收起
你看到某個東西，臉一下子白了、整個人愣住——appalling 說的其實是那個「倒抽一口氣」的反應。它不是單純評分低，而是壞到讓人震住、講不出話。這個字的重量一直來自「觀看者被嚇到」這一面，所以它形容的常是不該存在、不該讓人或動物承受的狀況。From the word’s history
From appall, ultimately from Old French apalir 'to grow pale' — the word began with the colour draining from a face.
appalling 是 appall 的形容詞形式，而 appall 一路回推到古法語 apalir，意思是「變蒼白」（pale 同源）。所以字的起點就是臉色刷白這個身體反應，後來才慢慢變成「令人震驚的」這個評價。知道這一點，就能理解為什麼 appalling 比 bad 重得多：它記錄的是人被嚇到失色的那一刻。
Wiktionary / Online Etymology Dictionary (appall < Old French apalir 'to grow pale')
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
appallingadj/əˈpɔːlɪŋ/
- 1
Horrifying and astonishing.
- That was an appalling waste of money.
- 2
Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
- Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.
- Karius has too much previous for this to be considered a one-off and, as goalkeeping mistakes go, his errors in the 51st and 83rd minutes were as bad as one another. In fact, they were not just bad. They were appalling, so wretched it was difficult to recall a worse goalkeeping performance in any major final through the years.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。