- 1令人作嘔的、看了想吐的；也可指緊張到胃在翻攪的（例如坐雲霄飛車那種）。
Something stomach-churning is so unpleasant that it makes you feel sick in your stomach. The picture inside the word is a stomach turning over and over, the way you feel before you vomit. Two situations use it. First, real disgust: a stomach-churning smell, a stomach-churning photograph of an injury, stomach-churning details in a news story. Second, fear or nerves so strong that your body feels it: a stomach-churning drop on a roller coaster, a stomach-churning moment when the plane shook. So the word covers both 'horrible to look at' and ' to go through' — the link is that your body reacts the same way to both. Sports writers like it for a match so tense the fans could hardly watch. It is quite strong and quite informal, at home in newspapers, reviews, and everyday talk. Keep the when it comes before a noun, and note that it describes the THING, not the person: the smell is stomach-churning; you are not.
組成stomach + churning. To churn is to stir something round and round with force — the old way of making butter was to churn milk. So the word says your stomach is being stirred round and round.
同家族的字
- churnto stir or turn round violently — the same word inside
原始詞典資料1 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。
stomach-churningadj
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Sickening or disgusting.
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