单词详解 | repulse

repulse
音标
英音/ rɪˈpʌls / 美音/ rɪˈpʌls /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
Separately, officials in Russian-annexed Crimea said a Ukrainian drone attack their fleet had been repulsed.
另外,俄罗斯吞并的克里米亚官员表示,乌克兰无人机对他们舰队的袭击已被击退。
BBC

“Tigray’s Army is reliably ready to repulse this offensive,” the statement said, “and transition into a counteroffensive to liberate occupied sovereign Tigrayan territory and return our displaced people to their homes.”
声明称:“提格雷军队已做好可靠准备,击退这场攻势,并转入反攻,以解放被占领的提格雷主权领土,让我们的流离失所者返回家园。”
Washington Post

Yet many in the party’s base turned against Hogan during his final years in office, repulsed by the governor’s criticism of former president Donald Trump and, in some cases, his pandemic mitigation policies.
然而,在霍根执政的最后几年里,党内基础设施中的许多人开始反对霍根,因为他对州长对前总统唐纳德·特朗普的批评以及在某些情况下他的流行病缓解政策感到反感。
Washington Post

基本释意
verb
force or drive back
拒绝;驱逐;憎恶

同义词
drive back,fight off,rebuff,repel,beat back,drive,force back,push back,repel,rebuff,snub,repel

短释义
Repulse is related to the word repel, and they mean similar things: to repulse an advance — romantic or warring — is to repel, or fend off, its advance. To repulse someone by being disgusting is to be repellent. You could repulse a person’s attempts at conversation if you repulse him by picking your nose. Repulse is now most frequently used in the gross-out sense, but Jane Austin often had her characters repulse each others’ attempts at conversation or civility.
排斥某物就是排斥它或驱赶它。当你拒绝你的妹妹时,你就厌恶她。当你在战斗中击退敌人或在谈话中击退某人时,你迫使他们后退或让他们转身离开。

长释义
Repulse is related to the word repel, and they mean similar things: to repulse an advance — romantic or warring — is to repel, or fend off, its advance. To repulse someone by being disgusting is to be repellent. You could repulse a person’s attempts at conversation if you repulse him by picking your nose. Repulse is now most frequently used in the gross-out sense, but Jane Austin often had her characters repulse each others’ attempts at conversation or civility.
排斥与“排斥”一词相关,它们的意思相似:排斥一种进步——无论是浪漫的还是交战的——就是排斥或抵御它的进步。通过令人厌恶来排斥某人就是令人厌恶。如果你通过抠鼻子来拒绝一个人的谈话尝试,你就可以拒绝他。排斥现在最常用于表示恶心的意思,但简·奥斯汀经常让她的角色拒绝彼此的谈话或礼貌尝试。

文学例句
“This color has a history of being quite attractive,” she said in an interview, “but I’m looking for a dissonance, something that also awakes or repulses.”
“这种颜色一直以来都非常有吸引力,”她在接受采访时说道,“但我正在寻找一种不和谐的感觉,一种既能唤醒也能令人排斥的东西。”
Pamela Rosenkranz Wins the High Line Plinth’s Third Commission by Hilarie M. Sheets

The first Saw was effective for its labyrinthine, Seven-aping plot but when stretched to breaking point and overwhelmed by an insufferable need to repulse, the series lost its appeal.
第一部《电锯惊魂》因其迷宫般的七猿情节而很有效,但当情节延伸到临界点并被难以忍受的击退需要所压倒时,该系列就失去了吸引力。
Saw too much: why the horror genre doesn’t need a torture porn comeback by Benjamin Lee

That I might see she was actually scared of me, repulsed at hands turned claws, just like everybody else.
我可能会发现她实际上很害怕我,厌恶我的双手,就像其他人一样。
We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

词源
repulse (v.)early 15c., repulsen, “hold (something) back; drive (someone) away,” from Latin repulsus, past participle of repellere “drive back, reject” (see repel). Also compare Medieval Latin repulsare. Related: Repulsed; repulsing.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
repulse (v.) 15世纪早期,repulsen,“保留(某物);驱赶(某人)离开”,源自拉丁语repulsus,repellere的过去分词“驱回,拒绝”(见repel)。还可以比较中世纪拉丁语repulsare。相关:拒绝;令人反感。相关条目及更多


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