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Repugnance is a strong feeling of dislike, the kind that makes you want to turn away. It is more than “I don’t like this.” It can feel almost in the body — a pull back from a smell, a cruel act, or an idea you cannot accept. It is a formal, rather noun. In speech people say disgust, strong dislike, or “I can’t stand it.” You feel repugnance at or for something. Though actually, it is not quite the same as hate: hate can grow over years; repugnance often hits you at once, like a door slamming shut inside.
厭惡、反感（強烈到想避開；偏書面）
組成From Latin repugnantia through Old French and Middle English. Doublet of the rarer form repugnancy.
同家族的字
- repugnantthe adjective for the same feeling
- pugnacioussame Latin fight root (pugnare); pugnacious is “ready to fight”
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。
repugnancenoun/ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/
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Extreme aversion, repulsion.
- moral repugnance
- sense of repugnance
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Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
- [T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
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。