ferocious

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 ferōx (「野蠻的，粗鄙的，殘暴的」) +‎ -ous。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/fəˈɹəʊʃəs/

• （伯克郡）音頻：

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• 韻部：-əʊʃəs

形容詞

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

1. 暴力的，野蠻的，殘暴的
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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. 極端的，激烈的，兇猛的

近義詞

• fierce

衍生詞彙

• ferociously

相關詞彙

• ferity
• ferocity
• fierce
• feral

延伸閱讀

• 「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 在線詞典 上有關 ferocious 的釋義