英语词典 · 单词释义
terrible
英 ['terɪb(ə)l] 美 ['tɛrəbl]
这里集中整理“terrible”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 可怕的；很糟的；令人讨厌的
- adv. 很，非常
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
比较级: more terrible;最高级: most terrible;
中文词源
terrible 可怕的
来自 terror,恐惧，惊恐，-ible,形容词后缀。
英文词源
- terrible (adj.)
- late 14c., "causing terror, awe, or dread; frightful," from Old French terrible (12c.), from Latin terribilis "frightful," from terrere "fill with fear," from PIE root *tres- "to tremble" (cognates: Sanskrit trasati "trembles," Avestan tarshta "feared, revered," Greek treëin "to tremble," Lithuanian trišeti "to tremble," Old Church Slavonic treso "I shake," Middle Irish tarrach "timid"). Weakened sense of "very bad, awful" is first attested 1590s.
双语例句
- 1. The evening show was terrible, with hesitant unsure performances from all.
- 晚上的演出很糟，所有人都缩手缩脚，显得很不自信。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. It was so humiliating, a terrible blow to my self-esteem.
- 这件事如此丢脸，深深地挫伤了我的自尊心。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I had a terrible head and was extraordinarily drunk.
- 我头很痛，已经酩酊大醉。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
- 现在的房子大多质量差劲透顶，肯定都是偷工减料盖起来的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He must be made answerable for these terrible crimes.
- 他必须对这些可恶的罪行负责。
来自柯林斯例句