horrific的意思|horrific的解释-里氏词典

horrific [hɒ'rifik]

a. 令人毛骨悚然的, 感到恐惧的

horrific

[ adj ]

grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

<adj.all>

subjected to outrageous cruelty

a hideous pattern of injustice

horrific conditions in the mining industry

causing fear or dread or terror

<adj.all>

the awful war

an awful risk

dire news

a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked

the dread presence of the headmaster

polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was

a dreadful storm

a fearful howling

horrendous explosions shook the city

a terrible curse

Horrific \Hor*rif"ic\, a. [L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible
+ -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See
{Horror}, {-fy}.]
Causing horror; frightful.

Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. --I.
Taylor.

Matrix had been rescued from a 'horrific situation' in late 1990, caused by the Iraqi involvement.
Then there is the other South Africa: a country of horrific violence and mounting social dislocation, of economic decline, political collapse and threats of civil war. To which country does the future belong?
The tragedy is the horrific increase in babies born in Florida with syphilis.
"It was horrific," Mr. Marcus says, "right out of Nazi Germany."
It has been pretty horrific.' Lossmaking Names have won an apparently emphatic victory against the professional members agencies' who advised them and placed them on the ill-fated Gooda Walker syndicates.
The movie portrays abduction scenes, but only conveys the horrific nature of the crimes through brief scenes showing marks of torture on the bodies.
'They gave us a wine carafe - they put that in there, with ice - and as soon as the ice melted, we used our flannels to wash: her flannel first, then mine after, for two days. 'It's horrific what happened to us.
Instead the mighty buildings stand for a hollow and horrific period of megalomania. Peter Adam has gathered from the slowly opening archives a good collection of visual images many of which have never been seen before.
"The Japanese economy is going through horrific change," Mr. Brusca said.
Aoun blamed the Lebanese Forces militia of rival Christian warlord Samir Geagea, calling Monday's killings a "horrific massacre."
She also knows that with Seles temporarily sidelined by that horrific knife attack she will never have a better chance.
One is that some particularly horrific act of violence will reverse the momentum towards peace.
He is explosive, enormously funny and warm, injecting a humanity in an otherwise horrific landscape.
The U.S.-Soviet accord, Baker said, "provides a real pathway toward a global ban on horrific weapons that we already know from bitter experience actually get used." On another front, however, a stalemate is developing.
And, finally, Mr. Bush is going to allow Vice President Quayle to remain on the ticket in 1992, with a slight possibility he might be dumped if the economy were to take a horrific downturn.
Although all Chinese share horrific memories of the Cultural Revolution, not all share the concern that history is poised to repeat itself.
Labor immediately accused Likud of a "horrific propaganda campaign" and demanded an apology.
A racket in horrific uncensored videos was believed smashed after thousands of tapes, including so-called 'snuff' killer movies - allegedly films of actual killings - were seized in police raids across the country.
The horrific accounts are illustrated by artists' reconstructions in which all the Americans are blond, with impossibly long, hooked noses and evil grins.
But horrific conventional war did occur, spurred by Hitler's belief that, in the apparent absence of Allied preparedness and will, aggressive military operations could gain Germany the advantage.
A police spokesman in Sidon, south Lebanon's provincial capital, said fighters are committing "horrific atrocities.' "They're knifing, hacking and gunning each other to death in Kfar Filla and Jbaa," he said.
We can't find a way out of this horrific, vicious circle." He proposed a joint Christian and Moslem military committee of the fractured Lebanese army to pursue ways of securing and monitoring a cease-fire.
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., got an overhead view of the crushed freeway from a helicopter and offered a horrific description: "It looked like a snake hacked with an ax.
"Five years ago, if you had one kid shot in a New York school, it would be horrific.
Leaflets warned of "horrific consequences for man and nature" if mutant bacteria ever escaped the plant.
Then in October, the museum will celebrate the constitution's bicentennial with "With Liberty and Justice for All," a look at one of the most horrific examples of constitutional excess, the mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Bloodshed reached new horrific heights in the last 18 months, with an underground war between the Medellin cartel and that of the southeastern city of Cali for control of the $1 billion New York market.

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