词汇释义
heinous UK /ˈheɪ.nəs/ US /ˈheɪ.nəs/ TEM8 GRE
adj, If you describe something such as a crime as heinous, you mean that it is extremely evil or horrible. 十恶不赦的，令人发指的
外刊例句
1. But combined with the bacon, each is a fruit/meat or savoury/sweet crime as heinous as pineapple on a gammon steak, turkey with cranberry sauce or a burger between two doughnuts.(The Guardian - Lifestyle)
2. We are united in our condemnation of this heinous act and our commitment to see that justice is served".(The Guardian）
3. European human rights judges have upheld the right of British courts to impose "whole life" prison sentences in the most heinous cases of murder.(The Guardian)
4. After the Bellfield case Samuels was described as "boastful" (for allowing his chamber's website to characterise him as sought-after and highly effective), as earning "hundreds of thousands of pounds" acting for "heinous criminals", and as a resident of a "large, five-bedroom, £1.4m detached house in Prestwich".(The Guardian)
5. Storm in a cup of tea, as Ken Barrington used to say, or heinous crime against cricket?(The Guardian - Sport)
6. The council condemned "the heinous terrorist activities of Boko Haram", including the abduction of the Chibok girls, and called for "drying up all possible sources of financing" for the group.(The Guardian - Opinion)
7. Hamas has condemned what it described as "a heinous crime".(The Guardian)
8. They were four individuals who formed a friendship who decided to plan and commit a heinous crime".(The Guardian)
9. Last week, the court upheld the rights of British courts to impose whole-life prison sentences in the most heinous murder cases.(The Guardian)
10. Perhaps he is that rare thing, a person determined to make the best of the world he has been born into, even if he discovers at the age of 36 that he had been "born" into a false world, the victim of a heinous crime.(The Guardian)
11. Despite the fact that my bicycle is called a Cannondale Bad Boy, the most heinous behaviour it could be accused of is going a bit rusty, just two months after I bought it.(The Guardian - Lifestyle)
12. It urged schools to set up committees to adjudicate complaints of sexual wrongdoing, even of heinous crimes such as rape.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
heinous + act, crime, offence, sin
词汇来源
late 14c., "hateful, odious, atrocious," from Old French hainos "inconvenient, awkward; hateful, unpleasant; odious" (12c., Modern French haineux), from haine "hatred, hate," from hair "to hate," from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *hatjan, from PIE *kad- "sorrow, hatred" (see hate (v.)). Related: Heinously; heinousness.
近义词
atrocious, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), horrendous, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish, shocking
反义词
alluring, appealing, attractive, desirable, enjoyable, felicitous, gratifying, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying
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