eerie

• adj. 可怕的；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.

1. This eerie calm is an illusion.

這種怪誕的平靜是一種假象。

來自柯林斯例句

2. an eerie yellow light

神秘兮兮的黃燈

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.

夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.

走進通往我房間的走廊時，那種怪異恐怖的感覺包圍了我。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.

這部電影和現(xiàn)實生活中發(fā)生的一系列戲劇性事件有著詭異的巧合之處。

來自柯林斯例句