gruesome
gruesome 英 [ˈgru:səm] 美 [ˈɡrusəm]
adj. 可怕的；阴森的
比较级:gruesomer 最高级:gruesomest
- Gothic novels, horror movies, and crime dramas don't shy away from showing gruesome scenes of death, pictures that inspire fright and repulsion. Synonyms include "ghastly," "grisly," "loathsome," and "macabre."
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- adj. 可怕的；阴森的
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1. Their job can expose them to the most gruesome sights and smells.
他们的工作使他们暴露在最可怕的情境和气味中。
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2. Only I knew that Hattie was infected with a secret fever, more gruesome than either of them could imagine.
只有我知道，海蒂被一种神秘的热病感染了，那比他们任何人所能想象到的还更可怕。
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3. Both videos offera gruesome window into what we're supporting if we choose to eatchickens, pigs and other farmed animals.
如果我们选择吃鸡、猪和其他养殖动物，这两个视频为我们在支持什么提供了可怕的视窗。
- gruesome (adj.) 1560s, with -some (1) + grue, from Middle English gruen "feel horror, shudder" (c. 1300); not recorded in Old English or Norse, possibly from Middle Dutch gruwen or Middle Low German gruwen "shudder with fear" (compare German grausam "cruel"), or from a Scandinavian source (such as Danish grusom "cruel," grue "to dread," though others hold that these are Low German loan-words). One of the many Scottish words popularized in England by Scott's novels. Related: Gruesomely; gruesomeness.
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