ugly

释义

• adj. 丑陋的；邪恶的；令人厌恶的

词源

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.

例句

• 1. I thought they were laughing at me because I was ugly. 我觉得他们嘲笑我是因为我长得丑。
• 2. The Memorial seems almost ugly, dominating the landscape for miles around. 那座纪念碑耸立在方圆数英里景致之中显得近乎难看。
• 3. What ugly things; throw them away, throw them away. 多难看的东西啊，扔掉，扔掉。
• 4. The extreme right reared its ugly head in the 1980s. 极右势力在20世纪80年代有所抬头。
• 5. She was a shy, ugly duckling of a child. 她小时候是个羞怯的丑小鸭。