- 1痛斥；深惡痛絕
To execrate someone or something is to speak of them with strong hate, or to curse them. It is very formal, almost church-and-literature English. Ordinary people say hate, can’t stand, or condemn. You might execrate cruelty, a cruel ruler, or a practice you find disgusting. It can name the feeling (deep hate) or the speaking-out (calling it cursed in public). Though actually, it started closer to a religious curse: to put someone outside what is sacred. That old flavour is why it still feels heavier than dislike. Like execrable, it is not execute, however similar the letters look.
組成From Latin exsecrārī / execrārī: ex- “out” + sacrāre “to consecrate, to declare accursed.” So: to put out of the sacred; to curse.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
execrateverb/ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/
- 1
To feel loathing for; to abhor.
- Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]
- And were I not a thing for you and me To execrate in anguish, you would be As indigent a stranger to surprise, I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
- 2
To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
- 3
archaicTo invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
- He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。