牛津博客詞匯辨析：grisly和grizzly

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Grisly和grizzly兩個詞拼寫和發(fā)音相似,，因此常常容易錯誤使用,，下面一起看看兩者的區(qū)別吧~

　　The words grisly and grizzly are often confused but are quite different in meaning。
　　Grisly和grizzly單詞有著不同的含義,，但常常容易混淆,。

　　1.Grisly means ‘causing horror or disgust’， as in：
　　1.Grisly表示：導(dǎo)致恐懼的或厭惡的,，例如：

　　The gang committed a series of grisly crimes,。
　　這個團(tuán)伙犯下了一系列嚴(yán)重的罪行。

　　He was insane when he carried out the grisly murders,。
　　他在進(jìn)行那些恐怖的謀殺時已精神癲狂,。

　　2.Whereas grizzlyis chiefly used with reference to a kind of large American bear and can also mean ‘grey or grey-haired’， as in：
　　2,。然而grizzly主要用于指一種大型的美國熊（灰熊）,，也可以表示：灰色的/灰白的，例如：

　　As the years went on he became grizzly in appearance,。
　　隨著時間的流逝他變得白發(fā)蒼蒼,。

　　There is also the word gristly， which is pronounced similarly to grizzly and grisly,， but means ‘consisting of or full of gristle’,。
　　另外一個詞gristly與grizzly和grisly有相同的發(fā)音，其含義為：軟骨的/似軟骨的,。

　　The beef was extremely gristly,。
　　這個牛肉的質(zhì)地含較多軟骨。

　　The meat tasted rank and was gristly,， as well as cold at the core,。
　　這塊肉吃起來又臭又硬，而且里面居然還是冷的