英语词汇horror show的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	horror show
词源	horror show. British novelist and critic Anthony Burgess coined horror show in his 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. Ac- cording to William Safire, in his column “On Language” (April 16, 2006), it was introduced “to describe the pleasure taken by cruel men” and “was a sly play on the Russian word khorosho, meaning good.”
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