Hideous means extremely ugly or extremely unpleasant — so strong you almost pull back. It can describe a face, a building, a colour, a noise, a crime, or a situation.

HideousHideous means extremely ugly or extremely unpleasant意思是極度醜陋，或極度令人不舒服——so strong you almost pull back強烈到讓你幾乎想別過頭去。It它 can describe可以用來形容 a face, a building, a colour, a noise, a crime, or a situation一張臉、一棟建築、一種顏色、一個噪音、一樁罪行，或一個處境。

A hideous shirt is painfully ugly. A hideous accident is awful to think about. A hideous lie is ugly in a moral way, not in a visual way.

A hideous shirt一件hideous的襯衫 is painfully ugly醜得讓人看了很痛苦。A hideous accident一場hideous的意外 is awful to think about想起來就讓人覺得可怕。A hideous lie一個hideous的謊言 is ugly in a moral way是道德上的醜陋，not in a visual way而不是外表上的醜。

If you only mean not pretty, ugly is enough; hideous turns the volume all the way up.

If you only mean not pretty如果你只是想說「不好看」，ugly is enough用ugly就夠了；hideous而hideous turns the volume all the way up則是把音量整個開到最大。

Though actually, in casual talk people sometimes laugh it onto something merely very bad, like a hideous mess in the kitchen, a little looser than the old sense of terror. It looks as if it might come from hide, but it does not.

Though actually不過實際上，in casual talk在輕鬆的口語裡 people sometimes laugh it onto something merely very bad人們有時會半開玩笑地把它用在只是「很糟」的東西上，like a hideous mess in the kitchen像是廚房裡一團hideous的亂，a little looser than the old sense of terror比原本那種帶著恐怖感的意思要鬆一點。It它 looks as if it might come from hide看起來好像是從hide藏這個字來的，but it does not但其實不是。