early 14c., from Old French horror (12c., Modern French horreur) and directly from Latin horror "dread, veneration, religious awe," a figurative use, literally "a shaking, trembling, shudder, chill," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (cognates: Sanskrit harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," Latin eris (genitive) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough"). As a genre in film, 1934. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition.
例文
1. Somehow he tells these stories without a note of horror .
なぜか彼はこれらの物語を話す時少しも恐れなかった。
2.Reggie reacted with the same afflonted horror Midge had felt.
レイジの反応は、恥じらいと恐れで、ミッキーの感覚と同じだ。
3.When she saw him,she let out a cry of horror .
彼女は彼を見て驚いて大声で叫んだ。
4.This novel is not science fiction，nor is it Gothic horror .
この小説はSFでもゴシックホラーでもない。
5.The media is full of shock- horror headlines about under-age crime.