atrocious

英 [əˈtrəʊ.ʃəs] 美 [əˈtroʊ.ʃəs]
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  • adj. 凶恶的,残暴的
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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
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.

权威例句

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!

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