- 1讓人卻步；倒胃口
Something off-putting makes you pull back. You do not like it, or it looks , or it makes you not want to go nearer — a smell, a rude manner, a huge price, a website that shouts at you. It comes from put off in the sense “make someone not want to do something,” not the other put off that means “leave it until later.” Though actually, it is often milder than “horrible”: the thing can be fine for someone else, but for you it gets in the way. It is ordinary English, a little informal, used about people, places, and things.
「off-putting」形容讓人往後縮、不想靠近的東西，可能是你不喜歡的味道、無禮的態度、貴得離譜的價錢，或一個吵得人受不了的網站。它來自 put off 「讓人不想做某事」的意思。它通常比 horrible 溫和，對別人可能沒問題，但對你來說就是一種妨礙。
另一個 put off 是「延後」的意思，把事情往後推，兩者來源不同。「off-putting」是日常英文，語氣稍微口語，可以用在人、地方和事物上。
From the word’s history
From put off; off- + putting.
來自片語 put off，就是 off- 加上 putting。
組成From put off, equivalent to off- + putting.
同家族的字
- put offthe verb this comes from, in the “make someone not want to” sense, not “delay”
原始詞典資料1 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。
off-puttingadj
- 1
Disconcerting, annoying or repulsive; tending to put off.
- His habit of picking his nose is quite off-putting.
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。