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Revulsion is a strong, sudden feeling of “get this away from me” — shock mixed with deep dislike. You might feel revulsion at cruelty, at a horrible sight, or at an idea that turns your stomach.
Revulsion Revulsion強烈厭惡is a strong, sudden feeling of "get this away from me"是一種強烈、突然「快把這東西拿走」的感覺— shock mixed with deep dislike是驚嚇混合著深深的厭惡。You你might feel revulsion可能會感到revulsion強烈厭惡at cruelty對殘忍的行為, at a horrible sight對恐怖的景象, or at an idea that turns your stomach或對讓你反胃的想法。
It is a feeling-word, and it lives more in writing and careful speech than in casual talk, where people more often say disgust.
It它is a feeling-word是一個描述感受的詞, and it lives more in writing and careful speech than in casual talk比較常出現在寫作和謹慎的講話裡,而不是隨口的聊天, where people more often say disgust隨口聊天大家更常說disgust。
It is not a political word: it is not revolution, though the two look alike on the page.
It它is not a political word不是一個政治詞: it is not revolution它不是revolution革命, though the two look alike on the page雖然這兩個字在紙上看起來很像。
Though actually, doctors once used revulsion for a treatment that tried to “draw” trouble from one part of the body to another; almost never need that old sense. The everyday meaning is the wave of dislike.
Though actually不過其實, doctors once used revulsion for a treatment醫生曾經用revulsion來指一種治療方式that tried to "draw" trouble from one part of the body to another想把問題從身體的一個部位「引開」到另一個部位; learners almost never need that old sense學習者幾乎用不到這個舊義。The everyday meaning日常的意思is the wave of dislike就是那股厭惡感。
組成Partly from Middle French révulsion, partly from Latin revulsiō.
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。
revulsionnoun/ɹɪˈvʌlʃən/
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Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
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A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
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medicinesciencesThe treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
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obsoleteA strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
- To run on in deſpight of the Revulſions and Pul-backs of ſuch Remora’s aggravates our tranſgreſſions.
- The recent financial revulsion has revealed the feeble basis on which credit now stands, […]
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obsoleteA sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
- We resolve, and our resolutions melt away with a word and a look: we are the toys of an emotion. And yet I think Norbourne was right in his sudden revulsion in favour of his uncle. We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
- A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the parliament and in the country, followed.
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。