grisly: [OE] Middle English had a verb grise ‘be terrified’, which points back via an unrecorded Old English *grīsan to a West Germanic *grīdenoting ‘fear, terror’, from which grisly would have been formed. Dutch has the parallel formation grijzelijk. In 1900, the Oxford English Dictionary described grisly as ‘now only arch and lit’, but since then its fortunes have recovered strongly, and it is now firmly part of the general language.
grisly (adj.)
Old English grislic (in compounds) "horrible, dreadful," from root of grisan "to shudder, fear," a general Germanic word (cognates: Old Frisian grislik "horrible," Middle Dutch grisen "to shudder," Dutch griezelen, German grausen "to shudder, fear," Old High German grisenlik "horrible;" of unknown origin; Watkins connects it with the PIE root *ghrei- "to rub," on notion of "to grate on the mind" (see chrism). See also gruesome, to which it probably is connected in some way. Related: Grisliness.
雙語例句
1. Robbing graves is grisly.
盜墓是可怕的.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. But everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.
可是大家都在談話, 一心關注的是眼前的這個慘狀.
來自英漢文學 - 湯姆歷險
3. If anybody spoke of that grisly matter, I was all ears in a moment.
如果誰談起那件可怕的事情, 我馬上就會聚精會神地聽起來.
來自辭典例句
4. EXMP: Houses were dark and grisly under the blank, cold sky.
在空寂寒冷的天空下, 房屋顯得模糊而恐怖.
來自互聯網
5. Vladimir did not fail, but success a grisly surprise.