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

• Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
  丑和美没有绝对的界限。丑陋是一种观点，溃疡对病理学家是美妙的东西。
• 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。
• Krishnamurti: You said you do not want to live in the confusion, the dishonesty and ugliness of this world.
  克：你说你不想生活在这个困惑、不诚实和丑陋的世界中。
• She puzzled by the sudden ugliness.
  她被这突如其来的尴尬局面弄得惊疑不已。
• 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。
• She deeply hated ugliness or intrusion or arrogance.
  她对邪恶、霸道和傲慢深恶痛绝。
• In the same manner there is ugliness in the distorted expression of beauty in our life and in our art which comes from our imperfect realisation of Truth.
  生活中对美的曲解是一种丑陋，同样地，艺术中对真理的不完美的认识也是一种丑陋。
• There's a general ugliness of women that pertains in the novel.
  小说里描绘了女人的丑陋。
• In the past, people often equated beauty with virtue and ugliness with vice.
  在过去，我们总是把美貌等同于真善美，而把丑陋视作假恶丑。
• 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。