abhorrent
英語 編輯
詞源 編輯
借自拉丁語 abhorrēns, abhorrēntis，abhorreō (「痛恨」) 的現在主動分詞。等價於abhor + -ent。
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形容詞 編輯
abhorrent (比較級 more abhorrent，最高級 most abhorrent)
- (古舊) 背離的，相悖的，相反的 （16世紀末）[1]
- abhorrent thoughts
- 完全不同的想法
- 1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France[1]:
- The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
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- 與...相反的，與...不協調的（17世紀中葉）[1]
- 1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire[2]:
- This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
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- 1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance[3]:
- In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
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- 懷恨的，憎惡的，痛恨的 （18世紀中葉）[1]
- 令人厭惡的，可恨的，可憎的 （19世紀初葉）[1]
- 1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism[4]:
- If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
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- 1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human[5]:
- That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
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- 1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas[6]:
- The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.
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參考資料 編輯
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), 「abhorrent」, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 頁4
延伸閱讀 編輯
- 「abhorrent」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- 「abhorrent」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 abhorrent 的釋義