ferocious

英语

词源

源自拉丁語 ferōx (“野蛮的，粗鄙的，残暴的”) +‎ -ous。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/fəˈɹəʊʃəs/

• （伯克郡）音频

  （文檔）

• 韻部：-əʊʃəs

形容词

ferocious (比較級 more ferocious, 最高級 most ferocious)

1. 暴力的，野蛮的，残暴的
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   • 2011 10月 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, 出自 BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.

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   • 2023 1月 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 期 975，頁號 47:

     "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."

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2. 极端的，激烈的，凶猛的

近义词

• fierce

衍生词汇

• ferociously

相关词汇

• ferity
• ferocity
• fierce
• feral

延伸阅读

• “ferocious”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “ferocious”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 ferocious 的释义