lurid
adj. 可怕的; 血紅的; 蒼白的
If you say that something is lurid, you are critical of it because it involves a lot of violence, sex, or shocking detail.
...lurid accounts of Claire's sexual exploits...
有關克萊爾的性生活史露骨的描述
Some reports have contained lurid accounts of deaths and mutilations.
一些報道含有對死狀和肢解的令人毛骨悚然的描述。
If you describe something as lurid, you do not like it because it is very brightly coloured.
She took care to paint her toe nails a lurid red or orange.
她精心地把腳指甲塗成妖豔的紅色或橙色。
1. horrible in fierceness or savagery;
2. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
3. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke;
4. ghastly pale;
The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.
這份報紙對這起兇殺案聳人聽聞的細節描寫得淋漓盡致.
His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated, but they had a tremendous impact.
他對金融界腐化的揭發是過分渲染和高度誇張的, 但確曾產生巨大影響.
His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated.
他對金融界腐化的揭發是過份渲染和高度誇張的.
She gave us a lurid description of the birth.
關於分娩,她向我們做了令人毛骨悚然的描述.
Moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminescence.
月光使這座雕塑發出蒼白的光亮.