revulsion
noun /rɪˈvʌlʃn/
/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
[uncountable, singular] (formal)- a strong feeling of horror
嫌恶；恶心；惊恐 - Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.
大多数人对爆炸事件表现出惊恐不安。 - revulsion at something She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.
她对这一暴行深恶痛绝。 - revulsion against something I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle.
我对他们那腐朽的生活方式开始感到厌恶。
Topics Feelingsc2- He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.
他对她的一切都感到仇恨和厌恶。 - She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children.
她似乎对自己的孩子感到厌恶。 - The children shrank back from him in revulsion.
孩子们厌恶地从他面前后退。 - The killing caused widespread revulsion.
这一杀戮引起了公愤。 - public revulsion against violence in our society
公众对我们社会上的暴力行为的憎恶
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- utter
- widespread
- …
- be filled with
- feel
- cause
- …
- in revulsion
- with revulsion
- revulsion against
- …
- a feeling of revulsion
- a sense of revulsion
词源mid 16th cent. (originally in a medical sense): from French, or from Latin revulsio(n-), from revuls- ‘torn out’, from the verb revellere (from re- ‘back’ + vellere ‘pull’). The current sense dates from the early 19th cent. - Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.