horribleは「とても悪い」という意味で、語源はhorrere(震える)に由来します。 同義語はterribleとawfulで、外見や匂い、味や天気、気分や態度などがとても悪いことを表現するときに使われます。例えばひどい天気(horrible weather)のときには外出を控えるのが賢明です。嫌なことが立て続けに起きると、「今日は最悪な日だった(Today was a horrible day)」と小言を言いたくなります。
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.