abhorrence

英 [əbˈhɒrəns]

美 [əbˈhɔːrəns]

n.  (尤指因道德原因的)憎恨，厌恶，憎恶

复数：abhorrences　

BNC.32781 / COCA.29710

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指因道德原因的）憎恨，厌恶，憎恶
  a feeling of strong hatred, especially for moral reasons

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 憎恨；憎恶
  Some-one'sabhorrenceof something is their strong hatred of it.
  1. They are anxious to show their abhorrence of racism.
     他们急切地想要表明自己对种族主义的憎恨。

英英释义

noun

• hate coupled with disgust
  Synonym:abominationdetestationexecrationloathingodium

双语例句

• I cannot think of it without abhorrence.
  我想起这件事来，就免不了痛恨自己。
• The story of how to reconcile our unslakeable thirst for oil with our collective abhorrence of risk would be a complex and subtle tale a late-career challenge for MS Gordimer, perhaps.
  如何协调我们对石油无法满足的欲望，与我们对风险的集体厌恶，将是一个复杂而又微妙的故事对于处于职业后期的戈迪默而言，这或许是一个挑战。
• Here the women of modern facilities and equipment, as well as social trends disgusted, or even abhorrence.
  这里的妇女对现代化设施、器械以及社会风尚都很反感，甚至表示憎恶。
• He has a great abhorrence of medicine.
  他对药物深恶痛绝。
• She could not determine how her mother would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.
  母亲实在太厌恶他了，因此伊丽莎白有时候竟会认为，即使以他财产地位，也挽回不了母亲的心，可是，母亲对这门婚姻无论是坚决反对也好，欣喜若狂也好，她的出言吐语反正都是不得体。
• His fairness and abhorrence of evil won him the confidence and support of the masses.
  他的公正和疾恶如仇赢得了群众的信任和拥护。
• These new measures are regarded with suspicion and abhorrence by the majority of teachers.
  对这些新措施，大部分教师都感到怀疑和厌恶。
• America hoped that the Nuremberg trials would demonstrate the abhorrence in which the world held the Nazi system, and bring home to the German people america's determination to extirpate that system forever.
  纽伦堡审判时，美国人它能展示全世界对纳粹制度的憎恶，并向德国人传递一个信息：美国决心永远根除纳粹制度。
• Others, recalling Germany's eugenic practices, have an equally strong abhorrence of genetic-based reproductive decisions.
  其它人则会联想到德国人当年实施的优生政策，从而对这一作法怀有同样强烈的厌恶。
• We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.
  我们不仅不认为有任何的邪恶力量来冤孽上帝就连国家彻底厌弃，如果有那些愿意相信这样一个邪恶的事，他们是诅咒。