repugnance

英 [rɪˈpʌɡnəns]

美 [rɪˈpʌɡnəns]

n.  嫌恶; 恶心; 强烈的反感

GRE法律

BNC.34791 / COCA.31519

牛津词典

noun

• 嫌恶；恶心；强烈的反感
  a strong feeling of dislike or disgust about sth
  1. She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
     她努力克制对他非常强烈的反感。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 让人反感的;令人厌恶的
  If you think that something is horrible and disgusting, you can say that it isrepugnant.
  1. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects...
     昆虫很讨厌皮肤内维生素的气味。
  2. The Committee said his actions were improper and repugnant.
     委员会称他行为失当，令人反感。

英英释义

noun

• intense aversion
  Synonym:repulsionrevulsionhorror
• the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
  Synonym:incompatibilitymutual exclusivenessinconsistency

双语例句

• He fought down a feeling of repugnance.
  他抑制住了厌恶感。
• She had a repugnance to the person with whom she spoke.
  她看不惯这个和她谈话的人。
• A feeling of repugnance or loathing. Mr. Lorry immediately remembered, and regarded his new visitor with an undisguised look of abhorrence.
  罗瑞先生立即想了起来，用并不掩饰的厌恶之情望了望新来的客人。
• To feel or express strong unwillingness or repugnance.
  她对这不受欢迎的建议感到反感。
• The appearance of dread, tension, worry, fidgeting and repugnance may be seen on students 'faces if they do not understand or speak out, and these ways can not be understood by teachers.
  尤其在领会和表达方面，如果他们听不懂说不出，老师又不理解，学生就会无形中表现出恐惧、紧张、烦躁和抵触心理。
• Her mind is all of a piece: there is a pre-established harmony between her constancy to the dead husband and her repugnance to the new suitor.
  她的思想始终如一：在她对已故丈夫的忠贞与对新求婚者的反感之间存在着一种预定的和谐。
• Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no illwill.
  姚伯战胜了他的厌恶心理了，因为苏珊至少对于他母亲并没有恶意。
• Then there's the option of basing our judgments on what conservative bioethicist Leon Kass once called the wisdom of repugnance& that is, on our commonsense moral intuitions.
  然后，出现了一种选择，让我们的判断基于保守派生物伦理学家LeonKass一度所说的厌恶的智慧&就是说，基于我们的常识中的道德直觉。
• Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.
  要向那位陌生的外籍女子讲这种事，有一种无法克服的反感使他没有说出到了嘴边的话。
• The thought of eating meat fills me with repugnance.
  一想到吃肉就令我深恶痛绝。