零基础学英语：grisly & grizzly词汇辨析

 　　Grisly和grizzly¹两个词拼写和发音相似，因此常常容易错误使用，下面一起看看两者的区别吧~

　　The words grisly and grizzly are often confused but are quite different in meaning.

　　Grisly和grizzly单词有着不同的含义，但常常容易混淆。

　　1.Grisly means ‘causing horror or disgust’, as in:

　　1.Grisly表示：导致恐惧的或厌恶的，例如：

　　The gang committed a series of grisly crimes.

　　这个团伙犯下了一系列严重的罪行。

　　He was insane when he carried out the grisly murders.

　　他在进行那些恐怖的谋杀时已精神癫狂。

　　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主要用于指一种大型的美国熊(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.

　　随着时间的流逝他变得白发苍苍。

　　There is also the word gristly, which is pronounced similarly to grizzly and grisly, but means ‘consisting of or full of gristle’.

　　另外一个词gristly与grizzly和grisly有相同的发音，其含义为：软骨的/似软骨的。

　　The beef was extremely gristly.

　　这个牛肉的质地含较多软骨。

　　The meat tasted rank and was gristly, as well as cold at the core.

　　这块肉吃起来又臭又硬，而且里面居然还是冷的

1 grizzly   

adj.略为灰色的，呈灰色的；n.灰色大熊

参考例句：

• This grizzly liked people.这只灰熊却喜欢人。
• Grizzly bears are not generally social creatures.一般说来，灰熊不是社交型动物。