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When something is revolting, it is so unpleasant that you want to turn away from it. A smell, a taste, a sight, or even a cruel thing someone does can be revolting.
When something is revolting當某樣東西 revolting 的時候,it is so unpleasant that you want to turn away from it是說它讓人不舒服到你會想別過頭去。A smell, a taste, a sight, or even a cruel thing someone does一種氣味、一種味道、一個畫面,甚至有人做出的殘忍的事,can be revolting都可以是 revolting。
It is stronger than just “bad” or “ugly”: it mixes dislike with a body feeling of pull-back, as if your stomach is turning. Friends say it freely; it is a sharp word to use about food on the table in front of you.
It is stronger than just "bad" or "ugly"它比單純的「bad」或「ugly」更強烈:it mixes dislike with a body feeling of pull-back它把厭惡感,混合了一種生理上想要退開的感覺,as if your stomach is turning好像你的胃在翻攪一樣。Friends say it freely朋友之間會很自然地用這個字;it is a sharp word to use about food on the table in front of you拿來說眼前餐桌上的食物,是個很尖銳的字。
Though actually, the same spelling is also just revolt + -ing, “fighting against a leader.” “The people were revolting” can mean they were rising up — or, as a joke, that they were disgusting. English speakers like that joke.
Though actually, the same spelling is also just revolt + -ing, "fighting against a leader."不過其實,同樣的拼法也可以只是 revolt 加上 -ing,意思是「反抗一位領袖」。"The people were revolting" can mean they were rising up「The people were revolting」可以是說他們正在起義——or, as a joke, that they were disgusting或者,開玩笑地說,是說他們很噁心。English speakers like that joke英文母語者很喜歡這種雙關玩笑。
Before a noun (a revolting smell, a revolting idea), people almost always mean the disgusting sense.
Before a noun (a revolting smell, a revolting idea)放在名詞前面的時候(像 a revolting smell、a revolting idea),people almost always mean the disgusting sense人們幾乎都是指噁心的那個意思。
組成revolt(反叛;也有「反胃、受不了而避開」的意思)+ -ing。噁心這個用法,來自「整個人想轉開、胃也跟著翻」的那層意思。
同家族的字
- revoltthe verb this is built from: to rise up, or to turn away in disgust
原始詞典資料3 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。
revoltingnoun
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revolution; revolt
- Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
revoltingadj
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repulsive, disgusting
- The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
- Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.
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。