horrible: [14] The Latin verb horrēre was used for hair standing on end or bristling. A common cause of this phenomenon is of course fear, and so in due course horrēre came to mean ‘tremble, shake, be filled with fear and revulsion’. The latter sense has been carried through into English in the derivatives horrible, horrid [16], and horror [14]. (Horrid, incidentally, from Latin horridus, was originally used in English in the etymological sense ‘shaggy, hairy, bristling’ – ‘a rugged attire, hirsute head, horrid beard’, Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy 1621 – but this did not survive beyond the early 19th century.) The Old French descendant of horridus was ord ‘filthy’, from a derivative of which English gets ordure [14]. => horrid, horror, ordure
horrible (adj.)
c. 1300, from Old French horrible, orrible (12c.) "horrible, repugnant, terrifying," from Latin horribilis "terrible, fearful, dreadful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Used as a mere intensifier from mid-15c.
双语例句
1. They made sure that he died a horrible death.
他们让他死得很惨。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Loneliness can be horrible, but it need not remain that way.
孤独可能会很可怕，但也并非一定如此。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Unless you respect other people's religions, horrible mistakes and conflict will occur.
如果不尊重别人的宗教信仰，就会祷下大错，酿成冲突。
来自柯林斯例句
4. That seems like a horrible mess that will drag on for years.