ugliness

英 [ˈʌglɪnɪs]

美 [ˈʌglinəs]

n.  丑恶，丑陋的事; 尴尬局面

复数：uglinesses　

BNC.18785 / COCA.16643

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 丑陋的；难看的
  If you say that someone or something isugly, you mean that they are very unattractive and unpleasant to look at.
  1. ...an ugly little hat...
     难看的小帽子
  2. She makes me feel dowdy and ugly.
     她让我自惭形秽。
• ADJ-GRADED （通常因涉及暴力、挑衅行为而）令人厌恶的，邪恶的，恶性的
  If you refer to an event or situation asugly, you mean that it is very unpleasant, usually because it involves violent or aggressive behaviour.
  1. There have been some ugly scenes...
     出现了一些恶性事件。
  2. The confrontation turned ugly.
     对抗局面进一步激化。
  3. ...an ugly publicity stunt.
     恶俗的宣传噱头
• torearitsugly head→ see:head

英英释义

noun

• qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses
• the quality of being wicked
  Synonym:nefariousnesswickednessvileness

双语例句

• You cannot isolate virtue and beauty and success and laughter and keep them all from contact with wickedness and ugliness and failure and weeping.
  你不能将美德、美丽、成功和欢笑孤立起来，并断绝它们与邪恶、丑陋、失败和哭泣的所有联系。
• My friend and I must amend some of the ugliness that exists around us.
  我和我的朋友，必须改善发生在我们周围的一些丑恶的事。
• If you are reading this book, then you are someone who wants to create beauty and not ugliness.
  如果你正在阅读这本书，那么你也许就是那个想去创造美而不是丑的人。
• They simply don't like the environment of civilization; this is, the city, with all its ugliness and tension.
  他们就是不喜欢文明世界的环境，也就是说不喜欢大都市，充满了丑恶与紧张的大都市。
• There's a general ugliness of women that pertains in the novel.
  小说里描绘了女人的丑陋。
• There have also been ugliness and injustice in corporate wielding of power.
  大公司在行使权力上也有过丑陋的事和非正义的行动。
• There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness.
  美与丑不再有区别。
• What Huang means by "hateful to look at" is not physical ugliness.
  黄氏所说的面目可憎，不是指身体上的丑陋。
• Go back to the beauty and ugliness.
  回到美貌和丑陋的问题。
• I feared the truth until I saw the ugliness in lies.
  我害怕真相，直到认清谎言的丑陋。