atrocious
英 [ə'trəʊʃəs]
美 [ə'troʃəs]
英語の語源
- 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.
例文
- 1. The food here is atrocious .
- ここの食べ物は飲み込みにくい。
- 2.She speaks French with an atrocious accent.
- 彼女はフランス語を話すのに聞き苦しいアクセントを持っている。
- 3.We work under atrocious conditions.
- 私たちは非常に劣悪な環境で働いています。
- 4.They committed the most atrocious cruelties.
- 彼らは極めて凶暴な暴行を犯した。
- 5.This is simply atrocious ！
- これはまあまあです！
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