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

• Gruesome tales of child murder.
  杀害儿童的可怕故事。
• A gruesome crime in suburban Baltimore.
  巴尔的摩郊区发生一起可怕的犯罪案件。
• The photos were expertly gruesome, they seemed to be pulps of human beings.
  那些照片巧妙地拍得十分阴森恐怖，他们看起来就是人肉。
• The gruesome German game is up.
  那个可怕的德国花招被揭穿了。
• 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。
• But the gruesome scenes fueled calls for revenge among Shiites, thousands of whom have rushed to join militias in recent days.
  然而，受到照片中可怕场面的刺激，什叶派呼吁报仇雪恨。最近几天，数千名什叶派穆斯林争相加入了各地的民兵组织。
• He was kept in a gruesome prison, and intermittently tortured, for five-and-a-half years.
  他被关押在一间令人毛骨悚然的监狱里，受尽折磨，这一关就是五年半。
• Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice;
  人类牺牲的可怕证据；
• What I'm inviting you to think about is which one, if you had to choose between these two gruesome scenarios, which one would you rather save?
  这里我要请大家思考的是，哪一个，如果你必须在这两个残忍情境中作出抉择，你会救哪一个？
• It was gruesome, from what I understand.
  但就我个人理解，这是很可怕的。