grotesque
grotesque 英 [grəʊˈtesk] 美 [groʊˈtesk]
n. 奇异风格；怪异的东西 adj. 奇形怪状的；奇怪的；可笑的
名词复数:grotesques
- Use grotesque to describe things that are very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If something "grosses you out," you can safely refer to it as grotesque.
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- n. 奇异风格；怪异的东西
- adj. 奇形怪状的；奇怪的；可笑的
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1. He was followed by the grotesque figures of the dead, who came marching two by two into the room. Their eye sockets glowed with blue fire as they surrounded the room.
疯子亨利的身影赫然出现在门廊上，瞳孔里点燃着怒火，身后尾随着死尸，个个奇形怪状，眼窝放着蓝光，两两一排，进入房内，包围着房子。
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2. We bet they keep on working even at night during the sleep – and at this time their vigorous imagination and restless mind picture unbelievable and grotesque buildings in front of their closed eyes.
我敢说，即使进入梦乡，他们依然在工作，此时，在阖上的双眼前，他们朝气勃发的想象力和不知疲倦的头脑仍在描绘着不可思议、奇形怪状的建筑。
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3. The pictures depict more grotesque health effects than the smaller labels recommended in the United States, including one showing a fetus with the warning that smoking can cause spontaneous abortion.
那些图片比起在美国使用的小标签显示了更多对健康奇怪的影响，比如一幅带着吸烟可能导致流产警告的胎儿图片。
- grotesque (adj.) "wildly formed, of irregular proportions, boldly odd," c. 1600s, originally a noun (1560s), from Middle French crotesque (16c., Modern French grotesque), from Italian grottesco, literally "of a cave," from grotta (see grotto). The explanation that the word first was used of paintings found on the walls of Roman ruins revealed by excavation (Italian pittura grottesca) is "intrinsically plausible," according to OED. Originally merely fanciful and fantastic, the sense became pejorative, "clownishly absurd, uncouth," after mid-18c. As the British name for a style of square-cut, sans-serif letter, from 1875. Related: Grotesquely; grotesqueness.
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