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Extremely bad, shocking, or unpleasant - stronger and more dramatic than just "terrible" or "awful." People often use it casually, even a bit, for things that are just very rather than truly disastrous - "horrendous traffic," "a horrendous smell."
極其糟糕的、可怕的(常帶誇張語氣)。
組成From "horrend-" (relating to horror) + -ous (adjective ending, "full of").
同家族的字
- horrorshares the same root idea of something shocking or dreadful
原始詞典資料1 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。
horrendousadj/həˈɹɛndəs/
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Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
- There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.
- My journey to work this morning was horrendous!
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。