ugly是什么意思_ugly怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

morally reprehensible;"would do something as despicable as murder"
"ugly crimes"
"the vile development of slavery appalled them"
"a slimy little liar"

provoking horror;"an atrocious automobile accident"
"a frightful crime of decapitation"
"an alarming, even horrifying, picture"
"war is beyond all words horrible"
"an ugly wound"

中英词源

ugly 丑陋的

来自PIE*egh, 恐惧，害怕，引申词义丑陋，-ly, 形容词后缀。比较其同源词awe, 敬畏。

ugly: ugly: [13] Ugly originally meant ‘horrible, frightening’; ‘offensive to the sight’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 14th century. The word was borrowed from Old Norse uggligr, a derivative of the verb ugga ‘fear’. In the early 1930s it was applied, in the altered spelling ugli, to a new sort of citrus fruit, a hybrid of the grapefruit and the tangerine; the reference is to the fruit’s unprepossessing knobbly skin.
ugly (adj.): mid-13c., uglike "frightful or horrible in appearance," from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse uggligr "dreadful, fearful," from uggr "fear, apprehension, dread" (perhaps related to agg "strife, hate") + -ligr "-like" (see -ly (1)). Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" late 14c. Extended sense of "morally offensive" is attested from c. 1300; that of "ill-tempered" is from 1680s.

Among words for this concept, ugly is unusual in being formed from a root for "fear, dread." More common is a compound meaning "ill-shaped" (such as Greek dyseides, Latin deformis, Irish dochrud, Sanskrit ku-rupa). Another Germanic group has a root sense of "hate, sorrow" (see loath). Ugly duckling (1877) is from the story by Hans Christian Andersen, first translated from Danish to English 1846. Ugly American "U.S. citizen who behaves offensively abroad" is first recorded 1958 as a book title.

词态变化

比较级 uglier;
最高级 ugliest;
名词 ugliness;

权威造句

1. I thought they were laughing at me because I was ugly.: 我觉得他们嘲笑我是因为我长得丑。

2. The Memorial seems almost ugly, dominating the landscape for miles around.: 那座纪念碑耸立在方圆数英里景致之中显得近乎难看。

3. What ugly things; throw them away, throw them away.: 多难看的东西啊，扔掉，扔掉。

4. The extreme right reared its ugly head in the 1980s.: 极右势力在20世纪80年代有所抬头。

5. She was a shy, ugly duckling of a child.: 她小时候是个羞怯的丑小鸭。

近反义词

hideous

plain

unattractive

unsightly

ungainly

相似短语

The Ugly Duckling 《丑小鸭》（安徒生童话）

ugly customer n. 可怕之人, 赖皮鬼

an ugly customer 讨厌的人,难对付的家伙

Ugly Meter 丑脸评分表

ugly rumour 【法】可怕的谣言, 不堪入耳的谣言

ugly sky 阴沉天空

as ugly as sin 丑陋不堪,十分难看,极其恶劣

ugly duckling 丑小鸭

butt ugly butt ugly【俚】极为难看的, 很丑的

as ugly as a mud fence 丑陋不堪,十分粗野

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