gruesome

英 [ˈɡruːsəm]

美 [ˈɡruːsəm]

adj.  令人厌恶的; 恐怖的; 可怕的

最高级：gruesomest　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14357 / COCA.11393

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人厌恶的；恐怖的；可怕的
  very unpleasant and filling you with horror, usually because it is connected with death or injury
  1. a gruesome murder
     骇人听闻的谋杀案
  2. gruesome pictures of dead bodies
     恐怖的死人照片
  3. We spent a week in a gruesome apartment in Miami.
     我们在迈阿密一套糟糕透顶的公寓里住了一星期。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人厌恶的；恐怖的；令人震惊的
  Something that isgruesomeis extremely unpleasant and shocking.
  1. There has been a series of gruesome murders in the capital.
     在首都发生了一连串让人毛骨悚然的谋杀案。

英英释义

adj

• shockingly repellent
  1. ghastly wounds
  2. the grim aftermath of the bombing
  3. the grim task of burying the victims
  4. a grisly murder
  5. gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  6. macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  7. macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  Synonym:ghastlygrimgrislymacabresick

双语例句

• There has been a series of gruesome murders in the capital.
  在首都发生了一连串让人毛骨悚然的谋杀案。
• The gruesome sight sent a shiver down my spine.
  那可怕情景使我的背脊发凉。
• It's kind of gruesome but we know there are some things you don't need your brain for.
  这是某种可怕的但是我们知道有些事情你不需要你的大脑去做。
• If these tales have brought your imagination back to life and you want to discover more ghostly and gruesome stories of times past.
  如果这些故事带来了你的想象力回到生活，你想要发现过去的时代和可怕的鬼故事。
• A gruesome setting for the murder.
  那谋杀案令人毛骨悚然的背景。
• On a lonely road one night, the three came across a particularly gruesome traffic accident, in which two young people had been killed on impact.
  一天晚上，在一条人迹罕至的路上，他们一家三口遭遇了一起特别恐怖的交通事故，事故中两个年轻人已经死了。
• You know, we could let the gruesome twosome destroy our careers.
  你知道，我可以让那对混蛋毁了我们的事业。
• The 11-year-old terrier nearly lost an ear and suffered several gruesome bites.
  可怜的Max是一只11岁的小梗犬，它几乎丢了一只耳朵，身上也有多处严重咬伤。
• A gruesome crime in suburban Baltimore.
  巴尔的摩郊区发生一起可怕的犯罪案件。
• A rather gruesome stewed crocodile claw?
  有点可怕的煮鳄鱼爪？