What you think it means: Fantastic, good.你認(rèn)為單詞的含義是:妙極了,極好的。
What it really means: Horrific, to inspire fear.單詞的真正含義是:可怖的,令人害怕的。
This is another one that we expect will be changed in the dictionary eventually because barely anyone uses the real meaning anymore. When people say they feel terrific, they mean to say they feel fantastic. An example of something terrific is King Kong. You see a giant monster and it inspires fear. We're going to loop awesome in with this one too. Awesome simply means to inspire awe and people often use it to describe something really good。我們認(rèn)為這個(gè)單詞的含義以后也會(huì)在詞典里重新修訂,因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在幾乎沒有人會(huì)去使用它的真正含義。當(dāng)人們說感覺terrific(恐怖的)時(shí),他們是指感覺fantastic(好極了)。《金剛》就是典型的terrific(可怖的)例子,因?yàn)樗蔷薰郑屓烁械娇謶。在此順便說說awesome這個(gè)單詞吧。Awesome是指“讓人感到驚懼”,但現(xiàn)在人們用這個(gè)詞的時(shí)候主要是指“某事好極了”。