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horror

/ˈhoɹɚ/ 名词 A2

中文: 恐惧 恐怖、惊悚、恐怖

  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror. (countable, uncountable) · I saw many horrors during the war.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. (countable, uncountable)
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. (uncountable)
  5. An individual work in this genre. (countable)
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. (colloquial, countable) · The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. (countable, informal, uncountable)
  8. Delirium tremens. (countable, informal, uncountable)

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Lynde lifted her hands in holy horror.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第325页 · C1
Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第236页 · B2
They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.
《The Wonderful Wizard of Oz》,第41页 · B2
He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第2页 · B2

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