| 单词 | horror |
| 释义 | horror (once / 112 pages) n The noun horror means intense fear, so you can use it when you describe the horror you felt when you dreamed you were flying on a bumpy airplane with a bunch of clowns. Horror is a powerful word that refers to a powerful feeling, either of terror, disgust, or shock. You might reel back from the horror of a smelly locker room, or gasp in horror at a gory scene in a movie. Horror can also be used to describe the genre of film that might make you gasp: a horror movie. The Latin word horror means "bristling, roughness, rudeness, shaking, or trembling." WORD FAMILYhorror: horrify, horrors+/horrified: horrifiedly/horrify: horrified, horrifies, horrifying/horrifying: horrifyingly USAGE EXAMPLESCulture Secretary Karen Bradley said it was important to remember the "horrors" of the Ypres battlefields, and honour the memories of the many who died. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The film progresses from that to the horrors of mass criminalisation and the prison industry. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) “I think we created something new, something of a twist on horror movies on the independent scale that we haven’t seen yet.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n intense and profound fear Hyper fear, fearfulness, fright an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) 2n intense aversion Syn|Hyper repugnance, repulsion, revulsion disgust strong feelings of dislike 3n something that inspires dislike; something horrible the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him Hyper thing an entity that is not named specifically |
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