Repulse
[rɪ'pʌls]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
(v. t.) To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.
(n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
(n.) Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to drive back: to repel: to beat off: to refuse reject.—n. the state of being repulsed or driven back: the act of repelling: refusal.—ns. Repul′ser; Repul′sion act of repulsing or driving back: state of being repelled: aversion: the action by which bodies or their particles repel each other.—adj. Repul′sive that repulses or drives off: repelling: cold reserved forbidding: causing aversion and disgust.—adv. Repul′sively.—n. Repul′siveness.—adj. Repul′sory.
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例句/造句/用法:
- For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am told many of these persons think about her, sir, I went ongaining courage on finding that I met attention rather than repulse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The ladies of Gaunt House called Lady Bareacres in to their aid, in order to repulse the common enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Paul and I did battle more than once--strong battle, with confused noise of demand and rejection, exaction and repulse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But naturally enough this suggestion was repulsed by Yuan Chwang. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Before the arrival of Wright the enemy had made two assaults on Sheridan, both of which were repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There was a slight attack on Burnside's and Wright's corps as they moved out of their lines; but it was easily repulsed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He assaulted at once, but was repulsed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Upton first drove the enemy, and was then repulsed in turn. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Our cavalry under Gregg was also attacked, but repulsed the enemy with great loss. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- On the right the enemy, if not being pressed back, was at least not repulsing our advance. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She--repulsing him with insult, and he imploring her with infatuation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The little man seemed rather baffled by these several repulses, and a short consultation took place between him and the two plump gentlemen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- She knows it, Kantos Kan, and repulses me only because she is promised to Sab Than. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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