[VERB 动词]击退;驱逐 When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them.
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They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
他们有5万人的部队驻扎在边境,随时准备击退任何进攻。
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[V-RECIP 相互动词](磁极、电荷之间)排斥 When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel .
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Like poles repel, unlike poles attract...
同极相斥,异极相吸。
As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other.
因为这些电子都是带负电荷的,它们会互相排斥。
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[VERB 动词]使厌恶;使讨厌 If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting.
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...a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her.
使她恐惧和厌恶的强烈兴奋感
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She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled.
她非常引人注目,但我觉得她有些讨厌。
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repel/rɪˈpel; NAmErɪˈpel/verb(-ll-)1[transitive ]repelsb/sth ( formal) to successfully fight sb who is attacking you, your country, etc. and drive them away 击退;驱逐◆to repel an attack/invasion/invader击退进攻╱入侵;驱逐入侵者◆Troops repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.部队挫败了对该岛南部的潜入企图。◆( figurative) The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.这种爬行动物浑身是刺,几乎所有的捕食者都退避三舍。2[transitive ]repelsth to drive, push or keep sth away 推开;赶走;驱除◆a cream that repels insects驱除昆虫的乳剂◆The fabric has been treated to repel water.这种织物进行过防水处理。3[transitive ]repelsb ( not used in the progressive tenses 不用于进行时) to make sb feel horror or disgust 使恐惧;使厌恶SYN
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◆I was repelled by the smell.这种气味让我恶心。4[transitive , intransitive ]repel(sth) ( technical 术语) if one thing repelsanother, or if two things repeleach other, an electrical or magneticforce pushes them apart 排斥;相斥◆Like poles repel each other.同极相斥。OPP
repelre‧pel /rɪˈpel/ verb (past tense and past participle repelled, present participle repelling)
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1[transitive] if something repels you, it is so unpleasant that you do not want to be near it, or it makes you feel ill → repulsive: The smell repelled him.2[transitive] to make someone who is attacking you go away, by fighting them: The army was ready to repel an attack.3[transitive] to keep something or someone away from you: a lotion that repels mosquitoes4[intransitive, transitive] technical if two things repel each other, they push each other away with an electrical forceOPP attract: Two positive charges repel each other.
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