喜樂美語
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    Strongly disliking something, or unwilling to do it. It's almost always followed by "to" — averse to risk, not averse to trying new things. A fairly formal word.

    反感的；不願意的（常用 not averse to...）

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組成a- (away from, from Latin "ab-") + a Latin root meaning "to turn" — literally "turned away from" something.

同家族的字

  • avertboth come from the Latin root meaning "to turn" — averse is turning away FROM something, avert is turning something else AWAY
  • reverseshares the same Latin root meaning "to turn"

原始詞典資料5 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。

averseadj/əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

  • 1

    Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.

    • The board is not averse to further talks.
    • “I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, […] is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.”
  • 2

    Turned away or backward.

    • The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.
  • 3

    obsoleteLying on the opposite side (to or from).

  • 4

    governmentheraldryhobbiesAversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.

averseverb/əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

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    obsoleterareTo turn away.

    • […] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.
    • The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies.

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。