Repulsion
[rɪ'pʌlʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'pʌlʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand.
(noun.) the force by which bodies repel one another.
編輯:谢恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
(n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
(n.) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.
手打:内蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Repulsion, as well as attraction, plays a part among the particles of matter disseminated in space. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He had to return to the conception of the individual particles of oxygen, nitrogen, and water, each a center of repulsion. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Her repulsion was getting stronger. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Her impression now was one of offence and repulsion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Gerald, in his father's presence, stiffened with repulsion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was so honest, that her arts and cajoleries did not affect him, and he shrank from her with instinctive repulsion. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She felt like a beetle toiling in the duSt. She was filled with repulsion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I was swinging quite close to the controlling devices, so I reached out to the lever that directed the rays of repulsion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Every particle of air, therefore, will bear any load inferior to the force of these repulsions. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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