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horripilation

/haw-rip-uh-ley-shuhn, ho-/US // hɔˌrɪp əˈleɪ ʃən, hɒ- //UK // (hɒˌrɪpɪˈleɪʃən) //

角化,骇人听闻,骇人听闻的声音,肢体语言

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps.

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Examples

  • The boy who saved her, the boy with the jolly tongue in his head, humorous amid the “horripilation,” had addressed it as Dad.

  • It seemed by its thorns to be in a state of perpetual horripilation, and by its roaming black antelopes to be rolling its eyes.

  • But, suddenly, through all the horripilation there seemed to shine a light.