| 单词 | horror |
| 释义 | hor·ror I. 1. a. < I saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me — H.G.Wells > < only to find to my horror that the dealer knew its value as well as I — H.J.Laski > b. < shrank from the task with all the horror of a well-bred English gentleman — Virginia Woolf > < the Spanish horror of any taint of Moorish blood — A.H.Quinn > 2. a. < statements emphasizing the horror of this disclosure — Elmer Davis > < sat in silence … contemplating the horror of their lives — Liam O'Flaherty > b. < for him the reef was not a beautiful thing but a horror — Alan Moorehead > < I know that this Nazi horror has to be destroyed — Upton Sinclair > < made speeches, and hired lawyers, but was unable to avert the horror — Alva Johnston > c. horrors plural (1) < smells and … sounds which could give one the horrors — Marcia Davenport > < his nervous breakdowns, the attacks of the horrors he is known to have suffered from — V.S.Pritchett > < one of their best batsmen was in the horrors — Ray Robinson > (2) < came home roaring drunk and that night had the horrors > Synonyms: see fear II. < some horror stories from the Old Testament — J.C.Swaim > < an Elizabethan horror play — Geoffrey Grigson > < has the strange fascination of a horror novel — Alfred Frankfurter > < horror comics > |
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