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If you call something abominable, you are not merely saying it is bad. You are saying it is so unpleasant, or of such poor quality, that it makes you want to turn away. People use it for weather, food, behaviour, and work that is bad: abominable weather, abominable manners. It is a strong, slightly old-fashioned, slightly theatrical word — the kind you reach for when you want the listener to feel the disgust, not when you are calmly a box. You will also meet it frozen into the name Abominable Snowman; there it is more a famous label than a real description of quality.
糟透的；可惡的、令人厭惡的
組成From Latin ab- (“away from”) + omen (“a sign”). Late Latin abominabilis meant “deserving to be pushed away as a bad omen.” Old books sometimes spelled it abhominable, as if it came from ab- + homo (“human”), “away from humankind” — that story is wrong, though Shakespeare plays with it when Hamlet says bad actors “imitate humanity abominably.”
同家族的字
- abominablythe adverb: in an abominable way
- abominationthe noun: a person or thing you find abominable
- abominatethe verb: to hate something as abominable
- omenthe Latin piece omen (“sign”) sits inside the older form
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abominableadj/əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩/
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Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
- abominable crime
- utterly abominable
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obsoleteExcessive, large (used as an intensifier).
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Very bad or inferior.
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Disagreeable or unpleasant.
- abominable weather
- The prisoners were kept in abominable conditions.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。