- 1
To retch is to try to vomit — your stomach heaves, your throat tightens, you make that ugly sound — but nothing comes up, or not yet. It is the body’s rehearsal for being sick. People retch at a bad smell, at something disgusting, after coughing too hard, or when they are really ill. You can also say a retch for the sound or the movement. It is a physical, slightly ugly word; nobody uses it in polite speeches. Though actually, retch is not the same as vomit: vomit is when something leaves the stomach; retch is the trying. And it is not wretch, which is a different word meaning an unlucky or despised person. They only look like cousins.
乾嘔、想吐（卻還沒吐出來）
組成Does not split. From Old English hrǣċan (“to clear the throat, hawk, spit”), from a Germanic verb *hrēkijaną (“to clear one’s throat”), from an older root *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Other languages still have cousins meaning to hawk, spit, gag, or “throat.”
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。
retchverb詞源 1/ɹɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
- Here he grew inarticulate with retching.
- 2
To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
- […] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.
- […] severe, with a heavy retching; the contents of the stomach would come up rather easily at first, but as it continued the retching became more severe. By the straining to vomit, all the symptoms were […]
retchnoun詞源 1/ɹɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
retchverb詞源 2/ɹɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
obsoleteTo reck.
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。