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    To nauseate someone is to make them feel they are going to vomit. A smell can nauseate you. A winding road can nauseate you. Though actually people also stretch it: a cruel story or a greedy act can nauseate you, meaning it turns your stomach because it is so wrong. That second use is a bit more like writing than like kitchen talk; in everyday speech you might say it made me sick. You will also meet nauseated as a describing word: I felt nauseated. There is an old classroom fight about nauseated versus nauseous. Some teachers say nauseous should mean 'causing the feeling' and nauseated 'having the feeling.' Real people, especially in American English, use nauseous for both, and you will hear that every day.

    使想吐、令人作嘔

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組成nausea + -ate (turns the noun into a verb). From Latin nauseātus, from nauseō, 'to feel sea-sick', from the same Greek 'ship' word as nausea.

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  • nauseathe noun for the feeling this verb gives you
  • nauseousthe adjective from the same family

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。

nauseateverb/ˈnɔziˌeɪt/

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    To cause nausea in.

    • […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.
    • After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me.
  • 2

    To disgust.

    • […] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together.
    • […] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste?
  • 3

    To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

    • As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore, I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more;
    • I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.

    • […] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […]
    • 1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1753, p. 594, In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo be disgusted by (something).

    • Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won, And hates the Muse by which she was undone.
    • 1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151, What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing and performing what is wrong.

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