1 N-UNCOUNT 震惊;恐惧;惊恐 Horror is a feeling of great shock, fear, and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant. 震惊;恐惧;惊恐
SYN terror, fear, alarm, panic
2 N-SING 惧怕;憎恶 If you have a horror of something, you are afraid of it or dislike it very much. 惧怕;憎恶
SYN hatred, disgust, loathing, aversion
3 N-SING 恐怖性;残酷 The horror of something, especially something that hurts people, is its very great unpleasantness. 恐怖性;残酷
SYN atrocity, awfulness, cruelty, outrage
4 N-COUNT [usually plural] 极其不愉快(或可怕)的经历 You can refer to extremely unpleasant or frightening experiences as horrors . 极其不愉快(或可怕)的经历
5 N-COUNT 极讨厌(或丑陋)的人(或事物) If you refer to someone or something as a horror, you mean that you think they are very unpleasant or ugly. 极讨厌(或丑陋)的人(或事物) [informal]
6 ADJ [ADJ n] (影片或故事)情节恐怖的,惊悚的 A horror film or story is intended to be very frightening. (影片或故事)情节恐怖的,惊悚的
7 ADJ [ADJ n] (经历或事件)非常不愉快的 You can refer to an account of a very unpleasant experience or event as a horror story. (经历或事件)非常不愉快的
8 PHRASE [PHRASE with cl] 最糟糕不过的事情 Horror of horrors is used to refer to something that you consider to be the worst part of a situation. 最糟糕不过的事情 [humorous, informal]
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The company has already boosted its share of the UK tea market with its round tea bags. Now it is successfully converting the nation to (horror of horrors) instant tea.
该公司已经凭借其袋泡茶提高了自己在英国茶叶市场的占有份额。现在它正在成功地使该国人民改喝(最可怕不过的)速溶茶。
Quotations
Where there is no imagination there is no horror Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life Jean Giraudoux The Enchanted
The horror! The horror! Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
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