ghastly是什么意思_ghastly怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;"ghastly wounds"
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"
"the grim task of burying the victims"
"a grisly murder"
"gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
"macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
"macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;"a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men"s bones"
"ghastly shrieks"
"the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

中英词源

ghastly 可怕的

来自ghose, 鬼。

ghastly: ghastly: [14] Despite its similarity in form and sense, ghastly is not related to ghost. It was formed from the Middle English verb gasten ‘terrify’, which may have been a descendant of the Old English verb gǣstan ‘torment’ (source of aghast). The spelling with gh-, based on ghost, was first used by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser, and in due course caught on generally.
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ghastly (adj.): c. 1300, gastlich, "inspiring fear or terror, hideous, shocking," with -lich (see -ly (2)) + gast (adj.) "afraid, frightened," past participle of gasten "to frighten," from Old English gæstan "to torment, frighten" (see ghost (n.)). Spelling with gh- developed 16c. from confusion with ghost. Middle English also had gastful in the same sense, but this is now obsolete. Sidney and Shakespeare also used ghastly as an adverb. Related: Ghastliness.

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词态变化

权威造句

1. He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies.: 他周围的人都在给他灌输可怕的谎言。

2. We had a ghastly holiday; it rained all the time.: 我们的假日过得十分不愉快, 整天下雨.

3. When he heard the news, his face took on a ghastly expression.: 他听到这个消息, 脸色变得很难看.

4. It"s a ghastly murder I ever heard.: 那我听过的是可怕的谋杀.

5. The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.: 后果不堪设想.

近反义词

ghastly smile 惨笑

相似短语

ghastly smile 惨笑

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