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To resent something is to feel angry or hurt about it, and to keep that feeling, because you think it is not fair. You can resent a person, a thing they did, or a whole situation.
To resent somethingResent(怨恨)一件事 is to feel angry or hurt about it就是對這件事感到生氣或受傷,and to keep that feeling而且把這種感覺留著,because you think it is not fair因為你覺得不公平。You can resent a person, a thing they did, or a whole situation你可以resent一個人、他們做的一件事,或整個情況。
It is quieter than shouting. The anger sits inside and does not blow away in a minute.
than shouting比起大吼大叫,it is quieter這比較安靜。The anger sits inside這股怒氣悶在心裡,and does not blow away in a minute不會一下子就消失。
A child may resent a little who gets all the attention. A worker may resent being asked to stay late when others go home.
A child may resent a little brother小孩可能會resent一個弟弟 who gets all the attention得到所有的關注。A worker may resent being asked to stay late員工可能會resent被要求加班 when others go home而別人卻可以回家。
It is a little careful in tone, but people use it in normal talk too.
It is a little careful in tone語氣上有點斯文、謹慎,but people use it in normal talk too但一般人平常說話也會用。
Though actually, you resent treatment, luck, or a person — something that feels and stays with you. A short flash of anger is more often I'm angry or that me. You do not resent a hard chair; you resent being left out, being talked down to, or being given less than others.
Though actually不過其實,you resent treatment, luck, or a person你resent的是對待方式、運氣,或某個人——something that feels unjust and stays with you一種感覺不公平、而且會一直留在心裡的東西。A short flash of anger短暫的一陣怒氣 is more often I'm angry or that annoyed me比較常說成「我很生氣」或「那讓我很煩」。You do not resent a hard chair你不會resent一張硬椅子;you resent being left out, being talked down to, or being given less than others你resent的是被排擠、被瞧不起,或拿到的比別人少。
組成From older French ressentir / resentir, from re- + sentir (to feel). The old idea is to feel it again: the feeling comes back and stays. Not the same word as resend (to send again).
同家族的字
- resentmentthe noun: the angry feeling itself
- resentfulthe adjective: full of that feeling
- sensefrom the same Latin root for feeling
- sentimentalso from that feel root
原始詞典資料7 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。
resentverb詞源 1/ɹiˈzɛnt/
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To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
- The bride greatly resented being left at the church.
- These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
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To express displeasure or indignation at.
- Do you resent us for offering you that choice?
- The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.
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obsoleteTo be sensible of; to feel.
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obsoleteIn a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
- […] which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.
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obsoleteTo recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
- Perchance as vulturs are ſaid to ſmell the earthlineſſe of a dying corps; ſo this bird of prey reſented a worſe than earthly ſavour in the ſoul of Saul, an evidence of his death at hand.
- But our King Henrie the ſeventh (being too good a ſenſer to miſtake a flouriſh for a blow) quickly reſented his drift (which was to perſwade our King to peace, till Charles ſhould perform his projects in little Britain and elſewhere) and dealt with him accordingly.
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obsoleteTo give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。