lurid
['lu:rid]
adj.可怕的, 骇人听闻的, 苍白的, 耀眼的
例句与用法:
The advantage of tours, of course, is that the guides tend to let you in on lurid details not mentioned on the little plaque.
当然,参加旅游团的好处是,导游往往能透露给你说明板上所未提到的令人毛骨悚然的细节。
A lurid, melodramatic, but accurate account of the accident.
关于这事件的一则轰动且耸人听闻但确切的报导
The papers gave the lurid details of the murder.
"报纸上描述了谋杀案的详情,令人毛骨悚然。"
词形变化:
a.
1. 火红的
2. 可怕的
3. 【罕】苍白的; 阴惨的
lurid
词形变化:
词义辨析:
同义:
a.甚为感伤的
terrible
sensational
startling
melodramatic
同义参见:
yellow
lurid['ljuərid]adj.1.■火红的;血红的;绚丽的;耀眼的2.■可怕的;耸人听闻的;过分渲染的;极具戏剧性的3.■暴力的;犯罪的4.■[罕用语]苍白的;惨白的;铅色的;青灰色的
luridlurid[ˈljuərid]adj.1.■(脸色等)青的, 苍白的2.■可怕的, 阴惨的, 惊人的3.■(夕阳等)血红的, 火红的4.■过分渲染 的; (画的颜色等)刺目的, 俗恶的cast [throw] a lurid light on使显得凄惨, 说得可怕a lurid sunset火红的晚霞
继承用法luridlyadv.luridnessn.
[ˈl(j)ʊərɪd]
adjective
- very vivid in colour, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect
鲜艳得可怕的
lurid food colourings.
不自然的鲜艳食品色素。
a pair of lurid shorts.
惹眼花哨的短裤。
■(of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters
(描述)可怕的;骇人听闻的
the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children.
有关大屠杀更骇人听闻的细节太可怕了,不适合让孩子们听。
luridly
adverb
luridness
noun
语源
- mid 17th cent. (in the sense 'pale and dismal in colour'): from Latin luridus; related to luror 'wan or yellow colour'
lurid
形容词 lurid:
horrible in fierceness or savagery
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
同义词:shocking
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
ghastly pale
lurid
■A 150-foot-high Ferris wheel from 1920 still creaks in the sky, children squeal on dizzying rides, and lurid, hand-painted signs advertise sideshows of snake-charmers and fire-eaters.
150英尺高的摩天轮从1920年起至今仍耸立空中,吱吱作响;孩童们在晕眩刺激的机动过山车上发出尖叫;
■lurid dwarf triton
n. 淡黄刍秣螺
■"Did you see this?" he asked, pointing to a lurid cartoon.
“看这个了吗?”他边问,边用手指着一幅俗里俗气的漫画。
■42. Some Western journalists like to colour their stories up with lurid details of people's private lives.
一些西方记者喜欢用人们私生活中耸人听闻的细节来渲染自己的报道。
■a lurid incident that scandalized the whole town.
一起震惊全镇的桃色事件
■It (light) can shine, flash, sparkle, gleam, glimmer, flicker, tremble, stab, burn and dazzle; it can be strong, weak, bright, feeble, faint, dull, piercing, lurid, dazzling and pure.
三、要有良好的汉语修养,特别是要能用汉语写通顺、流畅乃至漂亮的文章。要知道有时越是简单的词汇和句子,越难翻译。
■There was a lurid, gloomy canopy above; the elmtrees drooped their heavy blackish green
上面是一片苍白又阴郁的苍穹;榆树枝叶郁郁苍苍地低垂下来。
■There was a lurid, gloomy canopy above; the elm-trees drooped their heavy blackish green.
上面是一片苍白又阴郁的苍穹;榆树枝叶郁郁苍苍地低垂下来。
■The lake shining rather glassy away below, the mountains rather sulky, the greenness very green, all a little silent and lurid, and two mowers mowing with scythes, downhill just near: slush!
下边湖面泛着如镜的明洁光泽,群山略有些阴沉,绿色却显得更浓了,一切都悄然而可怕,只有两个割草人手持长柄镰刀,在附近的山脚发出“沙!
■But then, as Xinhua, cheerfully reminds us, China can expect a different seasonal environmental problem: lurid green algae blooms in lakes polluted with fertilizer.
不过,如新华网所提醒,又有另一个季节性的环境问题在等着我们:受到化肥污染的湖泊,又会遭受蓝藻暴发的侵袭。
■A lurid brazen light in the east proclaims the approach of day, while the western landscape is dim and spectral still, and clothed in a sombre Tartarean light, like the shadowy realms.
东方流泻出耀眼的古铜色光辉,宣告着新一天的来临。移目西边,景象黯淡依旧,鬼影幢幢,陷于昏暗的地狱之光,有如阴森异域。
■A 22)lurid brazen light in the east proclaims the approach of day, while the western landscape is dim and 23)spectral still, and clothed in a sombre 24)Tartarean light, like the shadowy realms.
东方露出一种奇幻的古铜色的光彩,表示天快要亮了;可是四面的景物,还是模模糊糊,一片幽暗,鬼影幢幢,疑非人间。
■Until courting couples learn this rule, girls will go on ending up with drawersful of unwearable slippery camisoles in lurid colours, and men with racks of acutely embarrassing ties.
互献殷勤的男女们直到后来才了解这个规则,结果是女孩们的衣橱抽屉塞满了难以捉摸的、不能穿着的色彩艳丽的贴身内衣,男人们则有了一排排令人极度尴尬的领带。
■Yet we have been cautious over joining the extensive and prurient commentary on a lurid array of sex scandals that have engulfed the 73-year-old prime minister this year.
今年的这些丑闻已经让这位73岁的总理焦头烂额。
■His hatred of you burns with a lurid flame-the flame that never dies.
他对你的仇恨象熊熊燃烧的火焰--永不熄灭的火焰。
■His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated.
他对金融界腐化的揭发是过份渲染和高度夸张的。
■28. His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated, but they had a tremendous impact.
他对金融界腐化的揭发是过分渲染和高度夸张的,但确曾产生巨大影响。
■But it is also a commentary on the lurid appeal of shopping malls, which were then multiplying quickly.
但它也是对购物商城可怕的吸引力的实况报道,此后购物商城迅速在各地涌现。
■But making the lurid details public certainly is, illustrating the growing power of the Chinese public to use the Internet to expose wrongdoing.
但是,将耸人听闻事件的细节公之于众,当然说明了中国公众利用互联网揭露不法之事的力量正在日益强大。
■But once the investigation began, the focus turned on the president himself and the Israeli press was filled with lurid accounts of the case.
但是,调查一开始,矛头便指向总统本人,以色列的报纸也都充斥着对这一案件的骇人听闻的报道。
■Like spilt quicksilver, hoarse growls rolled over the lurid weeds like thunders,
低沉嘶哑的吼声像散落的水银滚过红色的草,
■cast a lurid light upon
使…显得悲惨可怕
■cast a lurid light on the facts [a person's character]
使事实 [某人的性格] 显得可怖; 过份渲染事实 [某人的性格] (使之显得阴森可怕)
■cast [ throw ] a lurid light on
使显得凄惨, 说得可怕
■On its walls are lurid murals depicting the Statue of Liberty with a ghastly skull for a face and guns decorated with the stars and stripes.
使馆的屋墙上画着可怕的壁画:自由女神像的头是一个可怕的骷髅,她手中端着星条点缀的枪。
■She gave us a lurid description of the birth.
关于分娩,她向我们做了令人毛骨悚然的描述。
■lurid stories of politicians' sexual adventures
关于政客桃色新闻的耸人听闻的报道
■lurid headlines about the sex lives of the stars
关于明星性生活的骇人听闻的标题
■A lurid, melodramatic, but accurate account of the accident.
关于这事件的一则轰动且耸人听闻但确切的报导
■And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
再往西,在河段的上游,这座庞大的城市所在的地方仍不详地映照在天际,夕阳中的一团阴霾,星星下的一片血红光亮。
■Accurate reporting takes second place to lurid detail.
准确的报道在其次,耸人听闻的细节最重要。
■The Chinese-Canadian actor and singer quit the entertainment business last year, after weeks of lurid headlines and pictures in Hong Kong erased his previously clean-cut image.
去年,在被香港媒体连番头条轰炸后,这位华裔加拿大籍演员及歌手之前的清纯形象付之一炬,他随即退出了娱乐圈。
■Developing countries suffer more lurid and acute infections: malaria, tuberculosis, measles, cholera.
发展中国家遭受更可怕的恶性传染病,如疟疾、肺结核、麻疹和霍乱。
■No one but a pre-Raphaelite would have so exaggerated every attribute of that delicate face as to give a lurid lightness to the blonde complexion, and a strange, sinister light to the deep blue eyes.
只有一个拉斐尔前派,才会夸大那娇嫩脸蛋的每一种属性,赋予白面金发女郎的容貌以惨白色的光泽,给予深蓝色的眼睛以奇异而阴险的光芒。
■a lurid tale
可怖的故事
■Eventually, the lurid headlines calmed down, particually after Nixon's arrival statement in Washington reiterating that own commitments were unaffected.
后来,特别是尼克松回国在华盛顿发表谈话,重申我们的义务未受影响以后,这些耸人听闻的标题才平息下来。
■Eventually, the lurid headlines calmed down, particularly after Nixon's arrival statement in Washington reiterating that own commitments were unaffected.
后来,特别是尼克松回国在华盛顿发表谈话,重申我们的义务未受影响以后,这些耸人听闻的标题才平息下来。
■It was brought about as a result of him questioning the link between Prime Minister in Waiting Najib Tun Razak and the lurid murder of a Mongolian woman.
哥宾星被指在国会质疑侯任首相纳吉和蒙古女郎谋杀案有关,这成了他被重罚的导火线。
■Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.
因此,从哲学上看,这两种感情在本质上似乎是相同的,只不过一种刚好显现于神圣的天光中,而另一种则隐蔽在晦暗的幽光里。
■For one lurid moment she saw Dot Magston in the arms of a lad she didn't know.
在可怕的一刹那中,她分明看见黛特·马斯顿被一个她不认识的小伙子搂在怀里。
■For one lurid moment she saw Dot Magston in the arms of a lad she didn't know
在可怕的一刹那中,她分明看见黛特?马斯顿被一个她不认识的小伙子搂在怀里。
■Mentioning death in polite society is considered morbid unless it's in the context of a lurid murder.
在彬彬有礼的社交场合,提起死亡被认为是可怕的,除非是在叙述一件耸人听闻的谋杀案。
■As the only person among the draft dodgers, peaceniks and political idealists who understood how the media worked, he filed lurid - and hilarious - columns to document the voyage.
在所有的逃兵、和平主义者和理想主义者里,他是唯一一个了解媒体如何运作的人,因此他在报上发表简洁生动,同时也荒唐滑稽的专栏,记录下这次航程。
■The sky was lurid with the flames of the burning city.
城市燃烧的火焰映红了天空。
■She gave him an affectionate goodnight, and went out with him to the door, whence the fire of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid.
她很亲热地视他晚安,同他走到门口,从那儿可以看到焦煤镇的灯火,把远处照得亮堂堂的。
■Her broken-down cars were now lurid beasts against the stucco walls.
她的那些出了故障的小车,如今则是倚在粉饰着灰泥的墙壁边上的花哨野兽。
■She was wearing a lurid orange and green blouse.
她穿着一件花哨的橙绿色相间的衬衫。
■If the sun ever shone I don't remember it.I remember nothing but the cold greasy fogs that blew in from the frozen marshes over yonder where the railroad tracks burrowed into the lurid hills.
如果太阳出来过我也不记得了,我什么也不记得了,只记得从那边结了冰的沼泽上吹过来寒冷、油腻的雾,铁道就是在那儿消失在阴郁的群山中去。
■It stitches together the most lurid scandals in post-Soviet history in a narrative of infamy and camouflage, arguing that Russia is run by a gang of murderous ex-KGB men.
它在对伪装和邪恶叙述中将在苏联解体后的最骇人的丑闻串起来。这本书的观点就是俄罗斯处于一群凶残的前克格勃成员的淫威之下。
■And, having set the scene, he moves on to the action in Para 2. And despite the almost (16) lurid language, the sentence construction is quite simple.
布置完场景后,作者即移向第二段里的故事情节.尽管语言几乎有些苍白,但句子结构却相当简单.