心裡那股驚駭
核心那個定住的瞬間，以及它拉長之後的樣子：可以是當下的一擊，也可以是長期揮之不去的害怕。
shock and fear · noun · B2
A strong feeling of shock and fear you get when you see or think about something terrible.
驚駭 / 恐懼
核心畫面
Picture the moment you see something terrible and your whole body stops: you cannot look away, and you cannot move either. Horror can be thought of as that frozen mix of shock and fear — stronger and colder than being scared, because it comes with the sick feeling that this is really happening. From that one moment the word spreads in three directions. It names the feeling itself; it names whatever caused it (the horrors of the crash); and because it is such a big, heavy word, English also picks it up and uses it on small things, the way we call a naughty five-year-old a little horror.
可以想成你看見了某件可怕的事，整個人瞬間定住：眼睛移不開，身體也動不了。horror 就像是那份凍住的震驚加恐懼——…更多收起
可以想成你看見了某件可怕的事，整個人瞬間定住：眼睛移不開，身體也動不了。horror 就像是那份凍住的震驚加恐懼——比單純的害怕更強、也更冷，因為裡面還混著「這是真的發生了」的那種噁心感。從這一個瞬間，這個字往三個方向擴散：一是那份感覺本身；二是引起它的那個東西（the horrors of the crash 車禍的慘狀）；三是因為這個字又大又重，英文也會故意拿它來說小事情，就像我們叫一個調皮的五歲小孩「小魔王」。Three branches
引發驚駭的事物與那份可怕
從感覺轉向來源：既然某件事讓人 horror，那件事本身就被叫做 a horror，而它身上那份令人受不了的性質，也叫 the horror。
terrible event · noun · B2
Something that is very terrible, shocking, or frightening; a terrible thing that happens.
可怕的事物
故意把大字用在小事上（玩笑）
這一支借的正是 horror 又大又重這件事。把一個原本用來說災難的字，放到調皮小孩或雞毛蒜皮的小狀況上，反差本身就是幽默——聽的人知道你沒有真的在驚駭。
naughty child · noun · B2
A young child who behaves very badly — used in a joking, gently teasing way.
小淘氣 / 小魔王
原始詞典資料8 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。
horrornoun/ˈhɒɹ.ə/
- 1
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
- 2
Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
- 3
Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
- 4
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
- A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
- 5
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- 6
A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- 7
informalAn intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- 8
informalDelirium tremens.
- `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
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。