early 14c., from Old French horror (12c., Modern French horreur) and directly from Latin horror "dread, veneration, religious awe," a figurative use, literally "a shaking, trembling, shudder, chill," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (cognates: Sanskrit harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," Latin eris (genitive) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough"). As a genre in film, 1934. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition.
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1. Somehow he tells these stories without a note of horror.
不知为什么他讲这些故事时一点都不害怕。
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2. Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt.
雷吉的反应是又羞愤又害怕，和米奇的感觉一样。
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3. When she saw him, she let out a cry of horror.
她看见他时吓得大叫一声。
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4. This novel is not science fiction, nor is it Gothic horror.
这本小说既非科幻小说亦非哥特派恐怖小说。
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5. The media is full of shock-horror headlines about under-age crime.