eerie

英 ['??r?] 美

TEM8GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

比較級:?eerier;最高級:?eeriest;副詞:?eerily;名詞:?eeriness;

記：怪異的瑞(ri)長了三只眼睛(e),兩只在前,一只在后,怪可怕的
2. 這難道就是傳說中的三眼兒怪人嗎？

eerie 怪異的

來自古英語earg, 可怕的。

eerie: eerie: [13] Eerie seems to come ultimately from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *arg-, although the connection has not been established for certain. It emerged in Scotland and northern England in the 13th century in the sense ‘cowardly, fearful’, and it was not until the 18th century that it began to veer round semantically from ‘a(chǎn)fraid’ to ‘causing fear’. Burns was one of the first to use it so in print: ‘Be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn’. In the course of the 19th century its use gradually spread further south to become general English.
eerie (adj.): also eery, c. 1300, "timid, affected by superstitious fear," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful, craven, vile, wretched, useless," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cognates: Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.

4. As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.: 走進(jìn)通往我房間的走廊時，那種怪異恐怖的感覺包圍了我。

5. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.: 這部電影和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中發(fā)生的一系列戲劇性事件有著詭異的巧合之處。