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词源

盎格鲁-诺曼语 tenebrous (tenebrus)，源自拉丁语 tenebrōsus，源自tenebrae (“黑暗，阴影”)。

发音

• (英国) IPA^(帮助)：/ˈtɛ.nɪ.bɹəs/, /ˈtɛ.nə.bɹəs/

• 音频 (英式)

• (美国) IPA^(帮助)：/ˈtɛ.nə.bɹəs/

形容词

tenebrous（比较级 more tenebrous，最高级 most tenebrous）

1. 昏暗的，阴暗的
   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

     Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
     Met in a dusky arch, […]

   • 1992, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, "Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem", Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, page 174

     […] and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.

   • 1993, Georges Duby, Natalie Zemon Davis, Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, page 62, 1991, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Volume III: Dal Rinascimento all'etá moderna,

     White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.

   • 2008, Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, University Press of Mississippi, page xi,

     Although Ishiguro's novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emotional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, "against tenebrous historical backdrops."

相关词汇

• Tenebrae
• tenebrism
• tenebrosity

形容词

tenebrous（阴性 tenebrouse）

1. (盎格鲁-诺曼语) tenebrus 的另一种写法