核心畫面

Think of the moment your stomach turns over and you pull your head away without deciding to. A lid comes off a bin, and your whole body says no before you have had time to think. Nauseating names whatever causes that moment.

可以想成胃翻了一下、頭自己別開的那一瞬間。垃圾桶蓋一掀,身體已經先說不了,腦袋根本還來不及想。nauseating 更多收起可以想成胃翻了一下、頭自己別開的那一瞬間。垃圾桶蓋一掀,身體已經先說不了,腦袋根本還來不及想。nauseating 指的就是「造成那一瞬間的東西」。兩個用法都繞著這個畫面走:一個是真的發生在胃裡,一個是同樣的反應被拿來形容心裡的感覺。

Two branches

身體真的想吐

這一支就是畫面本身:氣味、味道、搖晃,直接作用在胃上。

adjective · C1

So unpleasant — usually a smell, a taste, or a sight — that your stomach turns over and you feel you might be sick.

令人作嘔的

心裡覺得噁心

同樣是「受不了、想別過頭」,只是這次引起反應的不是氣味,是別人的態度。英文把身體的反應借來講判斷。

adjective · C1

So false, smug, or unfair that it annoys and offends you — the disgust is in what you think of it, not in your stomach.

令人反感的

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。

nauseatingadj

  • 1

    Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.

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這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。