horrendous
音标：
英音/ həˈrendəs / 美音/ həˈrendəs /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Sheltered housing residents who have been without central heating for weeks say the recent cold weather has been “horrendous”.
几周来没有中央供暖的庇护所居民表示，最近的寒冷天气“可怕”。
—BBC
“I wouldn’t want this to happen to any other family, it’s just been horrendous for us all.”
“我不希望这种事发生在任何其他家庭身上，这对我们所有人来说都是可怕的。”
—BBC
“After more than 30 years and attempt after attempt to game the system, Mr Smith has answered for his horrendous crimes,” she said.
她说：“经过 30 多年的尝试，史密斯先生已经为自己犯下的可怕罪行付出了代价。”
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
causing fear or dread or terror
可怕的；惊人的
同义词：
awful,dire,direful,dread,dreaded,dreadful,fearful,fearsome,frightening,horrific,terrible
短释义：
If you’ve ever encountered something horrendous, you won’t be surprised to learn that the word traces back to the Latin word horrere, meaning “to bristle with fear, shudder.” That’s a good way to think about horrendous things — they cause you to shudder. You can use the word to describe any type of thing — people, ideas, actions, and so on — but save it for those things that are not merely bad but instead are truly horrifying.
运气不好、受伤、失误、不幸的着装或犯罪——任何事情如果能引起你几乎无法想象的恐惧或恐惧，都可以被称为可怕的事情。
长释义：
If you’ve ever encountered something horrendous, you won’t be surprised to learn that the word traces back to the Latin word horrere, meaning “to bristle with fear, shudder.” That’s a good way to think about horrendous things — they cause you to shudder. You can use the word to describe any type of thing — people, ideas, actions, and so on — but save it for those things that are not merely bad but instead are truly horrifying.
如果您曾经遇到过可怕的事情，您不会惊讶地发现这个词可以追溯到拉丁词 horrere，意思是“因恐惧而毛骨悚然，颤抖”。这是思考可怕事情的好方法——它们让你不寒而栗。你可以用这个词来描述任何类型的事物——人、想法、行动等等——但只能用来形容那些不仅不好而且真正可怕的事情。
文学例句：
No matter how horrendous the experience had been, I could usually get Jeffrey to laugh by acting like a sports commentator.
不管经历有多么可怕，我通常都能像体育评论员一样让杰弗里笑。
—Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Such a horrendous noise met him that he staggered backward a few steps.
一声可怕的响动袭来，他踉踉跄跄地向后退了几步。
—The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
It called the research “horrendous” and said the researchers should leave humans alone and “go back to their yeasts and fungi.”
它称这项研究“可怕”，并表示研究人员应该别管人类，“回到他们的酵母和真菌”。
—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
词源：
horrendous (adj.)1650s, from Latin horrendus “dreadful, fearful, terrible,” literally “to be shuddered at,” gerundive of horrere “to bristle with fear, shudder” (see horror). Earlier form in English was horrend (mid-15c.).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
horrendous (adj.)1650s，源自拉丁语 horrendus，意为“可怕的、恐惧的、可怕的”，字面意思是“令人颤抖”，horrere 的动名词“因恐惧而毛骨悚然，颤抖”（参见恐怖）。英语的早期形式是 horrend（15 世纪中期）。相关条目及更多
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