ghastliness
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/ˈgæst.li.nəs/ noun the quality of being unpleasant and shocking: "Life in the trenches was not all ghastliness," he recalled. “战壕里的生活并不都是严酷的”，他回忆道。
shock, horror!
phrase humorous an expression used when you are pretending to feel very shocked by a piece of news: Shock, horror! Carl James was seen talking to a woman and it wasn't his wife. 恐怖啊！有人看到卡尔‧吉姆和一个女人说话，那个女人不是他老婆。
恐怖地
ghoulishly
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/ˈguː.lɪʃ.li/ adverb disapproving in a way that is connected with death and unpleasant events, especially with getting pleasure from hearing or talking about these: He ghoulishly delighted the audience with an account of his crimes. 他滔滔不绝地讲述自己的罪行，让观众大呼过瘾。
恐怖的
scary
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/ˈsker.i/ B1 adjective informal frightening: a scary movie/story 恐怖电影／故事
bloodcurdling
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/ˈblʌdˌkɝː.dəl.ɪŋ/ adjective causing a feeling of extreme fear: a bloodcurdling story/scream 恐怖故事／令人毛骨悚然的尖叫
ghoulish
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/ˈguː.lɪʃ/ adjective disapproving connected with death and unpleasant things: He takes a ghoulish delight in reading about horrific murders. 他有一种病态嗜好，热衷于阅读与恐怖谋杀案有关的东西。
macabre
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/məˈkɑː.brə/ adjective used to describe something that is very strange and unpleasant because it is connected with death or violence: Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings. 连警方也为令人发指的杀戮行径所震惊。
grisly
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/ˈgrɪz.li/ adjective extremely unpleasant, especially because death or blood is involved: The 55-year-old Canadian had suffered a grisly death. 这位55岁的加拿大人死得很惨。
gruesome
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/ˈgruː.səm/ adjective extremely unpleasant and shocking, and usually dealing with death or injury: The newspaper article included a gruesome description of the murder. 这篇报道中有一段对谋杀案血淋淋的描述。
unearthly
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/ʌnˈɝːθ.li/ adjective strange in a mysterious and sometimes frightening way: Cats' cries have an unearthly quality. 猫的叫声令人毛骨悚然。
恐怖性
horror
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/ˈhɔːr.ɚ/ B2 noun an extremely strong feeling of fear and shock, or the frightening and shocking character of something: The crowd cried out in horror as the car burst into flames. 当汽车突然起火时，人群发出一阵惊恐的叫声。
恐怖故事
chiller
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/ˈtʃɪl.ɚ/ noun informal specialized a frightening film, book, story, etc. He directed Dawn of the Dead, the classic 1978 chiller. 他执导了1978年的经典恐怖片《活死人黎明》。
horror story
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/ˈhɔːr.ɚ ˌstɔːr.i/ noun a story in which very frightening and unnatural things happen
恐怖活动
terror
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/ˈter.ɚ/ noun violent action or threats designed to cause fear among ordinary people, in order to achieve political aims: The separatists started a campaign of terror to get independence. 为获得独立，分离主义者制造了一系列的恐怖活动。
恐怖统治
a reign of terror
phrase a period of time when a ruler controls people in a violent and cruel way
恐怖小说
chiller
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/ˈtʃɪl.ɚ/ noun informal specialized a frightening film, book, story, etc. He directed Dawn of the Dead, the classic 1978 chiller. 他执导了1978年的经典恐怖片《活死人黎明》。
恐怖谷理论
uncanny valley
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/ʌnˌkæn.i ˈvæl.i/ noun used to refer to the unpleasant feeling that some people have when they see robots , or pictures of a human being created by a computer, that appear very similar to a living human: Uncanny valley describes a situation in which a machine looks so eerily "almost but not quite human" that it just creeps people out. “恐怖谷理论”指的是“几乎是但不完全是人类”的机器会让人感觉毛骨悚然。
恐怖怪诞的
Kafkaesque
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/ˌkɑːf.kəˈesk/ adjective extremely unpleasant, frightening, and confusing, and similar to situations described in the novels of Franz Kafka: He is caught up in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare. 他陷入了卡夫卡式的官僚噩梦。
恐怖物品陈列室
chamber of horrors
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/ˌtʃeɪm.bɚ əv ˈhɔːr.ɚz/ noun a room that contains a lot of very frightening things
幽闭恐怖
claustrophobia
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/ˌklɑː.strəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/ noun fear of being in closed spaces: He suffers from claustrophobia so he never travels on underground trains. 他患有幽闭恐怖症，所以从不乘坐地铁。