核心畫面

One way to picture horrible: the word you reach for when something makes you pull back — a taste, a smell, a piece of news, a person's behaviour. In everyday speech it has into a strong 'really bad'; its stronger, sense still shows up when the subject is genuinely serious.

可以想成 horrible 是「讓你想往後縮」時會用的字——一種味道、一個氣味、一則消息、一個人的態度都可能。日常口更多收起可以想成 horrible 是「讓你想往後縮」時會用的字——一種味道、一個氣味、一則消息、一個人的態度都可能。日常口語裡它已經軟化成很重的「超糟」;但當話題真的嚴重時,它那層令人害怕的意思還在。

From the picture

待人很壞

讓人想退開的換成一個人的言行:他對別人無禮、刻薄,相處起來很不舒服。

unkind · adjective · A2

Rude and unkind in the way someone behaves towards other people.

很壞的

Also in this word

very bad · adjective · A2

Very bad, for example about how something looks, tastes, or smells, or about the weather.

很糟的

frightening or unpleasant · adjective · A2

Very unpleasant in a way that makes you feel frightened, worried, or upset.

可怕的

原始詞典資料4 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。

horriblenoun/ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

    • Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
    • A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
  • 2

    A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

horribleadj/ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

    • Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
    • Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
  • 2

    Tremendously bad.

    • Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。