repugnance

英 [rɪˈpʌɡnəns]

美 [rɪˈpʌɡnəns]

n.  嫌恶; 恶心; 强烈的反感

GRE法律

BNC.34791 / COCA.31519

牛津词典

noun

• 嫌恶；恶心；强烈的反感
  a strong feeling of dislike or disgust about sth
  1. She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
     她努力克制对他非常强烈的反感。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 让人反感的;令人厌恶的
  If you think that something is horrible and disgusting, you can say that it isrepugnant.
  1. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects...
     昆虫很讨厌皮肤内维生素的气味。
  2. The Committee said his actions were improper and repugnant.
     委员会称他行为失当，令人反感。

英英释义

noun

• intense aversion
  Synonym:repulsionrevulsionhorror
• the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
  Synonym:incompatibilitymutual exclusivenessinconsistency

双语例句

• The old lady's face creased into furrows of repugnance, and she made no further reply.
  老夫人的脸上堆起了许多皱纹，表示她的厌恶，不再说别的话了。
• Wherever her walk hath been-wherever, so miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose-it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance round about her.
  无论她走到哪里，无论她肩负多么悲惨的重荷，无论她可能多么巴望能得到安静的休息，这红字总向她周围发散出使人畏惧、令人深恶痛绝的幽光。
• The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.
  对兽肉有反感并不是由经验引起的，而是一种本能。
• Pierre coming out of the study looked with repugnance and compassion at the half-insane old man.
  皮埃尔也走到走廊里来，怜悯和厌烦地看着这个半疯半醒的老人。
• Arguing from the repugnance of statements about heterogeneity and commons cooperative supply ( Olson's and Ostrom's), the paper deal with the heterogeneous U-shaped relationship.
  从共享资源自发合作治理（集体供给）中异质性影响机理两种截然“相反”的观点出发，引出对异质性“U型曲线”关系的讨论。
• Then there's the option of basing our judgments on what conservative bioethicist Leon Kass once called the wisdom of repugnance& that is, on our commonsense moral intuitions.
  然后，出现了一种选择，让我们的判断基于保守派生物伦理学家LeonKass一度所说的厌恶的智慧&就是说，基于我们的常识中的道德直觉。
• She has a deep repugnance to the idea of accepting charity.
  她认为接受救济的想法是要不得的。
• It is nice of you to want to see me, and my repugnance to it was, perhaps, unnatural.
  你要见我，是你一片好心，而我对此反感也许是不合人情的。
• Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no illwill.
  姚伯战胜了他的厌恶心理了，因为苏珊至少对于他母亲并没有恶意。
• Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.
  要向那位陌生的外籍女子讲这种事，有一种无法克服的反感使他没有说出到了嘴边的话。