单词 | atrocious |
释义 | a·tro·cious /əˈtrəʊʃəs $ əˈtroʊ-/ adjective BADBAD ATextremely bad 糟透的 SYN awful atrocious weather 恶劣的天气 Her singing was atrocious. 她唱得糟透了。► see thesaurus at bad —atrociously adverbExamples from the Corpusatrocious• The traffic was atrocious.• At the hub of the crisis, hospital conditions in Samara and Saratov were atrocious.• This is the B side of the new single and truly atrocious.• The event was well attended with people queuing at 9.00 am despite the atrocious conditions.• an atrocious crime• Call it atrocious, horrendous, mystifying.• Ordinary people here have shown they care about the atrocious living conditions of our indigenous peoples.• The back lanes in the North Road area have been atrocious, people were dumping their rubbish in them.• The visibility was atrocious, perhaps forty yards, and I could see nothing.Origin atrocious (1600-1700) Latin atrox “sad, cruel”, from ater “black” + -ox “looking, appearing”a·tro·cious adjectiveChineseSyllable Corpus bad extremely |
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