horrific
horrific 英 [həˈrɪfɪk] 美 [hɔˈrɪfɪk, hɑ-]
adj. 可怕的；令人毛骨悚然的
- Something horrific causes horror. It’s disastrous and makes you shudder with fear. Yikes!
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- adj. 可怕的；令人毛骨悚然的
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1. Why would something as horrific as this happen to me?
为什么这么可怕的事发生在我身上？
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2. Whether in the United States or Liberia, he should be criminally investigated for these horrific offenses.
无论他在美国或利比里亚，都应该对他进行刑事侦查，追究这些可怕的罪行。
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3. The idea that this is civilization\'s final century is horrific not only because of the loss and suffering, but because of the guilt of what we might have done to prevent it.
我个人觉得这是人类文明的末世纪，是极其可怕的，不仅是因为损失和痛苦，更是因为我们可以去拯救而不去做的一种罪过。
- horrific (adj.) "causing horror," 1650s, from French horrifique or directly from Latin horrificus "dreadful, exciting terror," literally "making the hair stand on end," from horrere "be terrified, bristle, to stand on end" (see horror) + -ficus "making, doing," from combining form of facere "to make, to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). An older adjective was horriferous (1620s). Related: Horrifically.
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