atrocious

• adj. 凶恶的，残暴的

词态变化

英文词源

atrocious

atrocious: [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem *-oc-, *-ox meant ‘looking, appearing’ (Latin oculus ‘eye’ and ferox ‘fierce’ – based on ferus ‘wild’, and source of English ferocious – were formed from it, and it goes back to an earlier Indo-European base which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye).

Combined, they formed atrox, literally ‘of a dark or threatening appearance’, hence ‘gloomy, cruel’. English borrowed it (in the stem form atrōci-) originally in the sense ‘wantonly cruel’.
=> eye, ferocious, inoculate, ocular

atrocious (adj.)

1660s, from stem of Latin atrox "fierce, savage, cruel" (see atrocity) + -ous. Colloquial sense "very bad" is late 19c. Related: Atrociously; atrociousness.

双语例句

1. The food here is atrocious.

这里的食物难以下咽。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She speaks French with an atrocious accent.

她讲法语带有很难听的口音。

来自《权威词典》

3. We work under atrocious conditions.

我们在很恶劣的环境下工作.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. They committed the most atrocious cruelties.

他们犯下了极其凶残的暴行.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. This is simply atrocious!

这还了得!

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》