One way to picture horrible: the word you reach for when something makes you pull back — a taste, a smell, a piece of news, a person's behaviour. In everyday speech it has into a strong 'really bad'; its stronger, sense still shows up when the subject is genuinely serious.
可以想成 horrible 是「讓你想往後縮」時會用的字——一種味道、一個氣味、一則消息、一個人的態度都可能。日常口語裡它已經軟化成很重的「超糟」；但當話題真的嚴重時，它那層令人害怕的意思還在。
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
horriblenoun/ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
- 1
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
- A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
- 2
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
horribleadj/ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
- 1
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
- 2
Tremendously bad.
- Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.
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