喜樂美語
  1. 1慘不忍睹的、血腥可怕的

    Gruesome means very unpleasant and shocking, in a way that has to do with someone being killed or badly hurt. A gruesome crime, a gruesome crash, a gruesome scene in a film: you can picture wounds, blood, or death. People do stretch it — they may call a nasty story gruesome even when nobody is hurt — but the centre of the word is horror about the body, not just 'I do not like this.' It is a strong word. A bad sandwich is not gruesome. The first piece, grue, is an old word from the north of England and from Scotland, meaning to shake with fear. The ending -some means 'full of that quality.' A writer called Walter Scott helped the word spread in the early 1800s.

From the word’s history

grue 'to shudder with fear' + -some; probably popularized by Walter Scott.

由 grue「發抖、害怕」加 -some 組成，可能因司各特而流行。

Wiktionary

組成grue (old northern English and Scottish: to be frightened; to shudder with fear) + -some ('full of that quality').

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

gruesomeadj/ˈɡɹuːsəm/

  • 1

    Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

    • He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]
    • There's a wheen German horse doun at Glasgow yonder; they ca' their commander Wittybody, or some sic name, though he's as grave and grewsome an auld Dutchman as e'er I saw.
  • 2

    informalAwful, terrible.

    • The team was so unprepared that the way it played was just gruesome.
  • 3

    archaicrareOf a person: filled with fear; afraid, fearful.

    • Then says I to myself,—"John Ridd, these trees, and pools, and lonesome rocks, and setting of the sunlight, are making a gruesome coward of thee. Shall I go back to my mother so, and be called her fearless boy?"
    • Some of his [Nathaniel Hawthorne's] companions, either then or afterwards, took, I believe, rather a gruesome view of his want of articulate enthusiasm, and accused him of coming to the place as a sort of intellectual vampire, for purely psychological purposes.

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