worse

英 [wɜːs] 美 [wɝs]

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※ 提供单词"worse"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

worse 更坏

来自Proto-Germanic*wers-izon,更坏，更糟糕，*wers,混乱，糟糕，词源同war,*izon,比较级后缀。

worse: worse: [OE] Worse goes back to prehistoric Germanic *wersizon. This was a comparative formation based on *wers-, which also produced English war and German wirren ‘confuse’. The superlative worst [OE] came from the same base.
worse (adj.): Old English wiersa, wyrsa "worse," from Proto-Germanic *wers-izon- (cognates: Old Saxon wirs, Old Norse verri, Swedish värre, Old Frisian wirra, Old High German wirsiro, Gothic wairsiza "worse"), comparative of PIE *wers- (1) "to confuse, mix up" (cognates: Old High German werra "strife," Old Saxon werran "to entangle, compound;" see war (n.)). Used as a comparative of bad, evil, ill or as the opposite of better. The adverb is Old English wyrs; the noun is Old English wyrsa. Phrase for better or for worse is attested from late 14c. (for bet, for wers); to change for the worse is recorded from c. 1400.

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1. He arrived on January 9, disheveled and much the worse for wear.: 他是1月9号到的，蓬头垢面，疲惫不堪。

3. Don't let yourself despair; this will only make matters worse.: 不要想不开，这样只能使情况变得更糟。