英文词源
- atrocious
- atrocious: [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem *-oc-, *-ox meant ‘looking, appearing’ (Latin oculus ‘eye’ and ferox ‘fierce’ – based on ferus ‘wild’, and source of English ferocious – were formed from it, and it goes back to an earlier Indo-European base which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye).
Combined, they formed atrox, literally ‘of a dark or threatening appearance’, hence ‘gloomy, cruel’. English borrowed it (in the stem form atrōci-) originally in the sense ‘wantonly cruel’.
=> eye, ferocious, inoculate, ocular - atrocious (adj.)
- 1660s, from stem of Latin atrox "fierce, savage, cruel" (see atrocity) + -ous. Colloquial sense "very bad" is late 19c. Related: Atrociously; atrociousness.
中文词源
atrocious：残暴的
发音释义：[ə'trəʊʃəs] adj. 凶恶的，残暴的
结构分析：atrocious = atroc（可怕的、残忍的）+ious（形容词后缀）→残暴的
词源解释：atroc←拉丁语atrox（可怕的、残忍的）
趣味记忆：atroc→谐音“爱敲死”→残暴的
常见搭配：atrocious weather（恶劣气候）；atrocious deed（暴行）；atrocious crime（残暴的罪行）；atrocious accident（恶劣的事故）
实用知识：Atrocious（穷凶极恶，西班牙电影）
衍生词：atrocity（残暴、暴行）