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Aversion Turning Sense Past Participle 13088.Aversion 英 ə'Vɜːʃ(ə)N]美

正面 13088.aversion
英 [ə'vɜːʃ(ə)n]美 [ə'vɝʒn]

背面
释义:
n. 厌恶;讨厌的人
例句:
1. He had an aversion to getting up early.他十分讨厌早起。

1、a- "ab-, away" + vers- + -ion.2、字面含义:turn away. => turned away in mind or feeling.3、averse来源于avert的拉丁语对应词的过去分词。由此取形容词词性并引申出如今的含义。4、Originally and usually in English in the mental sense, while avert is used in a physical sense.

aversion (n.)"a turning away from," 1590s; figurative sense of "mental attitude of repugnance" is from 1650s, from Middle French aversion and directly from Latin aversionem (nominative aversio), noun of action from past participle stem of aversus "turned away, backwards, behind, hostile," itself past participle of avertere (see avert). Earlier in the literal sense of "a turning away from" (1590s). Aversion therapy in psychology is from 1950."

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