ugly
英 ['?gl?]
美['?ɡli]
- adj. 丑陋的；邪惡的；令人厭惡的
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詞態(tài)變化
比較級:?uglier;最高級:?ugliest;名詞:?ugliness;
中文詞源
ugly 丑陋的
來自PIE*egh, 恐懼，害怕，引申詞義丑陋，-ly, 形容詞后綴。比較其同源詞awe, 敬畏。
英英釋意
- 1. displeasing to the senses and morally revolting;
- "an ugly face"
- "ugly furniture"
- "war is ugly"
- 2. deficient in beauty;
- "ugly gray slums"
- 3. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
- "a surly waiter"
- "an ugly frame of mind"
- 4. morally reprehensible;
- "would do something as despicable as murder"
- "ugly crimes"
- "the vile development of slavery appalled them"
- 5. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
- "a baleful look"
- "forbidding thunderclouds"
- "his tone became menacing"
- "ominous rumblings of discontent"
- "sinister storm clouds"
- "a sinister smile"
- "his threatening behavior"
- "ugly black clouds"
- "the situation became ugly"
- 6. provoking horror;
- "an atrocious automobile accident"
- "a frightful crime of decapitation"
- "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"
- "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill
- "an ugly wound"
英文詞源
- 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.
考試真題
- All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light i
2015年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- These accents were seen as "common" and "ugly".
2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
實用場景例句
- an ugly face
- 丑陋的面孔
牛津詞典
- an ugly building
- 難看的建筑
牛津詞典
- an ugly incident
- 危險事件
牛津詞典
- There were ugly scenes in the streets last night as rioting continued.
- 昨晚暴亂持續(xù)之際，街上險象環(huán)生。
牛津詞典
- ...an ugly little hat...
- 難看的小帽子
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- She makes me feel dowdy and ugly.
- 她讓我自慚形穢。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- There have been some ugly scenes...
- 出現(xiàn)了一些惡性事件。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The confrontation turned ugly.
- 對抗局面進一步激化。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Down deep in that ugly heap Marie Curie felt sure that her new element lay hidden.
- 就在那一堆丑陋難看的東西中,瑪麗·居里夫人深信她的新元素蘊藏其中,不為人知.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The witch was hideously ugly.
- 那個女巫丑得嚇人.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The sky has an ugly look.
- 天氣陰沉沉的.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
- 他現(xiàn)在一副電影明星的模樣, 小時候他可真是只丑小鴨.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- I like her in a kind, but she is ugly.
- 我有點喜歡她, 但她長得丑.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- What an ugly mug!
- 多難看的一張臉!
《簡明英漢詞典》
- She painted herself thick and ugly.
- 她臉上粉搽得又厚又難看.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- He's very sensitive about his ugly appearance.
- 他對自己丑陋的外貌很敏感.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- If you're not careful, the evil magician will change you back into the ugly creature that you used to be.
- 你要是不小心的話, 那個邪惡的魔術(shù)師又會把你變回你原來的丑模樣.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- She discredited him with ugly gossip.
- 她用難聽的流言蜚語臭他.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The situation was getting more ugly.
- 情況變得更惡劣了.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- An ugly woman serves as a foil to a pretty girl.
- 一個丑女人可以將美麗的姑娘反襯得更加漂亮.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- Children are sometimes understandably reluctant to wear glasses that are ugly or uncomfortable.
- 孩子們有時不愿意戴難看或不舒服的眼鏡,這是可以理解的.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Don't believe the ugly rumours.
- 不要聽信那些不堪入耳的謠言.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The fairy changed the ugly old woman into a frog.
- 仙女把那個丑陋的老女人變成了一只青蛙.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- There were ugly scenes in the streets last night as rioting continued.
- 昨晚暴亂持續(xù)之際，街上險象環(huán)生。
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》
- Roy was tremendously ugly, mega ugly.
- 羅伊巨丑特丑。
柯林斯例句
- Often outsize clothes are made from cheap fabric and look like ugly tents.
- 超大號服裝常常質(zhì)地較差，而且看上去好似丑陋的帳篷。
柯林斯例句