loathsome

英 [ˈləʊðsəm]

美 [ˈloʊðsəm]

adj.  极不愉快的; 令人厌恶的; 讨厌的

最高级：loathsomest　

TOEFL

BNC.21183 / COCA.22172

牛津词典

adj.

• 极不愉快的；令人厌恶的；讨厌的
  extremely unpleasant; disgusting

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人憎恶的；让人恶心的；讨厌的
  If you describe someone or something asloathsome, you are indicating how much you dislike them or how much they disgust you.
  1. ...the loathsome spectacle we were obliged to witness.
     我们不得不目睹的令人恶心的场面。

英英释义

adj

• highly offensive
  1. a disgusting smell
  2. distasteful language
  3. a loathsome disease
  4. the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
  5. revolting food
  6. a wicked stench
  Synonym:disgustingdisgustfuldistastefulfoulloathlyrepellentrepellantrepellingrevoltingskankywickedyucky
• causing or able to cause nausea
  1. a nauseating smell
  2. nauseous offal
  3. a sickening stench
  Synonym:nauseatingnauseousnoisomequeasyoffensivesickeningvile

双语例句

• So many loathsome animals inhabited the prison, that their noise did not, in general, awake HIM.
  牢房里住着许多讨厌的小动物，它们常发出一些响声，他早已习以为常了。
• Sometimes you'll swear you don't see in yourself the loathsome qualities you notice in others.
  有时候，你会发誓在自己身上看不到你在别人身上注意到的那些可恶的品质。
• For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
  我满腰是火。我的肉无一完全。
• I can't see any of this helping much: its only effect would be to make doing your job so loathsome that you might not be sorry if you ended up losing it.
  我看不出这些建议有多大帮助：它唯一的影响将会是使你的工作如此令人讨厌，如果你最终失去工作，你或许不会感到遗憾。
• It took me a couple of weeks of dealing with these loathsome types before I realised something was wrong.
  我和这些本来应该让人生厌的家伙们打交道了几周才意识到有点不对劲。
• Sin is a loathsome and hateful thing, and no renewed heart can patiently endure it.
  罪是肮脏污秽的事，一个重生得救的人是无法忍受它。
• We have not tried it because it is very, very fearful, loathsome: because when you see your bones, blood, veins, you become afraid.
  我们不曾试过因为那很可怕，令人讨厌：因为当你看到自己的骨头、血液、血管时你会很害怕。
• What exactly have they accomplished? Apart from being loathsome.
  他们取得了什么成就啊？除了成功地令人作呕。
• Bringing the loathsome Saddam Hussein to justice should have been a propaganda victory for the United States.
  将臭名昭著的萨达姆·侯赛因正法，本应是美国一次宣传上的胜利。
• Or, must she receive those intimations-so obscure, yet so distinct-as truth? In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense.
  或许，她应该把那些如此含糊又如此明晰的暗示当作真理来接受吧？在她所有的不幸遭遇中，再没有比这种感受更使她难堪和厌恶的了。