- 1強烈厭惡、極度反感
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. 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 is not a political word: it is not revolution, though the two look alike on the page. 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.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
- 2
A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- 3
medicinesciencesThe treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
- 4
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, […]
- 5
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.
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