grisly 復習
何度も取り上げられておりますが、座間の事件についてです。
Japan 'serial killer' said to be quiet child turned sex trade scout
Takahiro Shiraishi, the Japanese man who has reportedly confessed to murdering and hacking up nine young people in his Tokyo bathroom, was said to be a quiet schoolboy who would grow up to work on the fringes of the sex industry and become a suspected serial killer.
Pictures of the 27-year-old show an ordinary-looking man with neat, dark hair and glasses, who lived in a nondescript flat on a quiet residential street in one of Tokyo's endless sprawling suburbs.
But on the morning of Halloween, police uncovered a grisly house of horrors behind Shiraishi's front door: Nine dismembered bodies with as many as 240 bone parts stashed in coolers and tool boxes, sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence.
今回はgrislyに注目しました。『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第五版，大修館）を引いたところ、「（ぞっとするほど）おそろしい」、「不快な」と書かれております。名詞だと、「（自分に好意を持つ）嫌な男，ダサい男」となるようです。Oxford Dictionary of English (2th) には、 “causing horror or disgust”という定義がありました。
ちなみに似たような単語でgrizzlyがありますが、こちらは「灰色」などの意味を持ち、grislyとは全く異なるので気をつけましょう。（Gomez）
