| 英语单词 | repulse |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [rɪ'pʌls] 美 [rɪ'pʌls] |
| 中文释义 | n.击退;拒绝 v.击退;拒绝 |
| 英语例句 | (1) After the second repulse, the enemy surrendered. (2) Her repulse was quite unexpected. (3) Her request for a donation met with a rude repulse. (4) Do I repulse you with my queasy smile? (5) The city garrison must be prepared to repulse attacks. (6) I repulsed her kindness. (7) She repulsed his proposal. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 在第二次击退之后,敌人投降了。 (2) 她的拒绝是完全出人意料的。 (3) 她要求赞助却遭到粗暴拒绝。 (4) 我诡异的笑脸让你知难而退了吗? (5) 现在必须巩固要塞,囤积兵力来阻挡敌人的进攻。 (6) 我拒绝了她的好意。 (7) 她拒绝了他的求婚。 |
| vocabulary简明 | To repulse something is to repel it or drive it back. When you repulse your sister, you disgust her. When you repulse the enemy in battle or someone in conversation, you force them back or make them turn away. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Repulse is related to the word repel, and they mean similar things: to repulse an advance — romantic or warring — is to repel, or fend off, its advance. To repulse someone by being disgusting is to be repellent. You could repulse a person's attempts at conversation if you repulse him by picking your nose. Repulse is now most frequently used in the gross-out sense, but Jane Austin often had her characters repulse each others’ attempts at conversation or civility. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使憎恶;使反感 If you are repulsed by something, you think that it is horrible and disgusting and you want to avoid it. [ [usu passive]
2 [VERB 动词]击退 If an army or other group repulses a group of people, they drive it back using force. [V n]
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