atrocious
英 [əˈtrəʊ.ʃəs]
美 [əˈtroʊ.ʃəs]
将“atrocious”拆解为“at-rot-cious”。联想“rot”为腐烂,意味着非常糟糕的状态。然后想象这个单词像是在说“在(at)极度腐烂(rot)的状态(cious)”,这样就可以记住它的意思是非常糟糕、令人无法容忍的。
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- atrocious
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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.
- 1. The food here is atrocious.
- 这里的食物难以下咽。
- 2. She speaks French with an atrocious accent.
- 她讲法语带有很难听的口音。
- 3. We work under atrocious conditions.
- 我们在很恶劣的环境下工作.
- 4. They committed the most atrocious cruelties.
- 他们犯下了极其凶残的暴行.
- 5. This is simply atrocious!
- 这还了得!