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Detestation is the strong feeling of hating someone or something very much. It names the hate; it is not an action word. Her detestation of lies means she hates lying a lot. It is formal and a bit . In speech people usually say hate or hatred. You will meet it in writing more than at the table. Though actually, you cannot detestation a person. You detest them, or you feel detestation for them. An older phrase, hold in detestation, means the same, but it sounds quite old now.
痛恨、憎惡(名詞:那份很深的恨,不是動詞)
組成From Middle French détestation. The -ation ending marks the noun: the act or the feeling of detesting.
同家族的字
- detestthe verb this noun comes from
- detestablethe adjective: deserving that hate
原始詞典資料2 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。
detestationnoun
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Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”
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Something detested.
- Neckties are a real detestation for them.
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。