gory

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/    美 /ˈɡɔɹ.i/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Covered with blood; very bloody.
    — a gory movie
  2. Scandalous, and often unpleasant. informal
    — Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
  3. Excessively detailed, often boringly so. figuratively
    — I ask the obligatory questions about how he thought she was doing and if he changed the medicine. I bite my tongue and get all the gory information. She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know. Then I ask the two most important questions about the medication change. In no particular order, “Are we going to get to go to the all you can eat[…]
  4. Bloody; pesky. dated,slang
    — "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."

词形变化

gorier comparative goriest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
gorily goriness gory details ungory

词源

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
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