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An abomination is a person or thing you find extremely offensive or unacceptable — so wrong, ugly, or cruel that it should not be. People use it for buildings they , laws they think are wicked, food they cannot bear, and, in older religious English, for practices said to be hateful to God. It is a heavy, judging word. Calling a person an abomination is an attack, not a cool description. You will hear it from angry critics and from church language more than from calm everyday talk.
令人憎惡的人／事物（教會中文常作「可憎惡的事」）
組成From Middle French abomination, from Late Latin abominatio. Same family as abominable: the feeling of pushing something away as a bad sign.
同家族的字
- abominablethe adjective: of the kind that makes something an abomination
- abominatethe verb: to feel that way toward something
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。
abominationnoun/əˌbɒ.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
- Onely th’adulterous Anthony, most large / In his abhominations, turnes you off
- Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.
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The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred
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obsoleteA state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.
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That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred (often with religious undertones).
- Appalled by a child she found hideous, Philyra begged the gods to free her from having to rear such an abomination.
- Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a new rift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
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。