obnoxious
英語[編輯]
其他形式[編輯]
- obnoctious (廢棄)
詞源[編輯]
來自拉丁語 obnoxiōsus (「有害的，危險的」)，來自obnoxius (「受懲罰的；有危險的」)，來自ob (「面對」) + noxia (「傷害」)。
發音[編輯]
形容詞[編輯]
obnoxious (比較級 more obnoxious，最高級 most obnoxious)
- 可憎的，討厭的
- 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 卷 1，頁號 74:
- The disturbance had commenced, like those of England, in the refusal of the parliament to sanction an obnoxious tax; but here all resemblance ended.
- 這場騷亂和英格蘭的騷亂一樣，都是從議會拒絕批准一項令人厭惡的稅收開始的；但所有的相似之處都在這裡結束了。
- 1989, Antônio Torres, Blues for a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil，頁號 41:
- Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress. I felt obnoxious.
- 有人搖晃著我的手臂，我的杯子裡的東西濺到了一件無瑕的白色連衣裙上。我覺得很討厭。
- 2010 8月 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever[1], Random House，頁號 109:
- 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.
- 我九歲或十歲的時候，我媽媽用儀式用的河馬皮鞭子追著我爬上一棵荊棘樹。我的罪行是什麼，我忘記了。我的母親過去和現在都是一個非常寬容的女人。我一定做了一些令人討厭的事情，以至於讓人難以置信。
- 2013, Catherine Hilterbrant, Drive-by Psychosis, →ISBN，頁號 51:
- I always feel out of place when I am around people. I feel obnoxious if I laugh or talk too much.
- 當我和人在一起時，我總是感到格格不入。如果我笑太多或說話太多，我會感到討厭。
- 2013, Molly Cutpurse, Dark Man, →ISBN，頁號 44:
- 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.
- 他感到很討厭，而且很清楚如果有人發現他，他將無法解釋，但她看起來如此迷人，如此無憂無慮，如此幸運，以至於他唯一關心的是百葉窗發出的可怕的破裂聲……儘管它是如此安靜。
- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- 他是一個特別令人討厭和可憎的男人的樣本。
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- 向公共汽車扔石頭是你令人討厭的行為的另一個例子。
- (古舊) 易受傷害的
- 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.
- 還是從他的樹木燃燒實驗開始談起，在我看來，對於這個實驗，不考慮某些重要的例外情況是不行的。
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 26,