terrible
英 ['terɪb(ə)l]
美 ['tɛrəbl]
- adj.恐ろしい；非常に悪い；不快
- adv.非常に、非常に
語源
恐ろしいterror（恐怖）、fear（恐怖）、horror（恐怖）、-ible（形容詞接尾辞）から。
英語の語源
- terrible (adj.)
- late 14c., "causing terror, awe, or dread; frightful," from Old French terrible (12c.), from Latin terribilis "frightful," from terrere "fill with fear," from PIE root *tres- "to tremble" (cognates: Sanskrit trasati "trembles," Avestan tarshta "feared, revered," Greek tre?in "to tremble," Lithuanian tri?eti "to tremble," Old Church Slavonic treso "I shake," Middle Irish tarrach "timid"). Weakened sense of "very bad, awful" is first attested 1590s.
例文
- 1. The evening show was terrible ，with hesitant unsure performances from all.
- 夜の演出は悪くて、すべての人が足をすくめて、とても自信がないように見えます。
- 2.It was so humiliating，a terrible blow to my self-esteem.
- このことはこんなに恥をかいて、私の自尊心を深く傷つけた。
- 3.I had a terrible head and was extraordinarily drunk.
- 私は頭が痛くて、もう泥酔しています。
- 4.Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
- 今の家の多くは品質が最悪で、手抜きで建てられているに違いない。
- 5.He must be made answerable for these terrible crimes.
- 彼はこれらの憎らしい犯罪に責任を負わなければならない。