obnoxious

英语

其他形式

• obnoctious (废弃)

词源

来自拉丁语 obnoxiōsus (“有害的，危险的”)，来自obnoxius (“受惩罚的；有危险的”)，来自ob (“面对”) + noxia (“伤害”)。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /əbˈnɒkʃəs/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /əbˈnɑkʃəs/

• 音讯（英国）：

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形容词

obnoxious (比较级 more obnoxious，最高级 most obnoxious)

1. 可憎的，讨厌的
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 第 1 卷，第 74 页:

     The disturbance had commenced, like those of England, in the refusal of the parliament to sanction an obnoxious tax; but here all resemblance ended.

     这场骚乱和英格兰的骚乱一样，都是从议会拒绝批准一项令人厌恶的税收开始的；但所有的相似之处都在这里结束了。

   • 1989, Antônio Torres, Blues for a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil，第 41 页:

     Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress. I felt obnoxious.

     有人摇晃着我的手臂，我的杯子里的东西溅到了一件无瑕的白色连衣裙上。我觉得很讨厌。

   • 2010年8月3日, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever‎^[1], Random House，第 109 页:

     I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.

     我九岁或十岁的时候，我妈妈用仪式用的河马皮鞭子追着我爬上一棵荆棘树。我的罪行是什么，我忘记了。我的母亲过去和现在都是一个非常宽容的女人。我一定做了一些令人讨厌的事情，以至于让人难以置信。

   • 2013, Catherine Hilterbrant, Drive-by Psychosis, →ISBN，第 51 页:

     I always feel out of place when I am around people. I feel obnoxious if I laugh or talk too much.

     当我和人在一起时，我总是感到格格不入。如果我笑太多或说话太多，我会感到讨厌。

   • 2013, Molly Cutpurse, Dark Man, →ISBN，第 44 页:

     He felt obnoxious and knew perfectly well that he would have no explanation whatsoever had anyone discovered him, but she looked so alluring, so untroubled, so fortunate, that his only concern was the terrible crack the shutter made...quiet as it was.

     他感到很讨厌，而且很清楚如果有人发现他，他将无法解释，但她看起来如此迷人，如此无忧无虑，如此幸运，以至于他唯一关心的是百叶窗发出的可怕的破裂声……尽管它是如此安静。

   He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.

   他是一个特别令人讨厌和可憎的男人的样本。

   Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.

   向公共汽车扔石头是你令人讨厌的行为的另一个例子。

2. (古旧) 易受伤害的
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 26,

     To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.

     还是从他的树木燃烧实验开始谈起，在我看来，对于这个实验，不考虑某些重要的例外情况是不行的。

近义词

• annoying
• unpleasant

派生词

• obnoxiously
• obnoxiousness

 

相关词语

词源上与noxia (“伤害，损害”)相关

• noxious
• nocent
• innocent