loathsome

英 [ˈləʊðsəm]

美 [ˈloʊðsəm]

adj.  极不愉快的; 令人厌恶的; 讨厌的

最高级：loathsomest　

TOEFL

BNC.21183 / COCA.22172

牛津词典

adj.

• 极不愉快的；令人厌恶的；讨厌的
  extremely unpleasant; disgusting

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人憎恶的；让人恶心的；讨厌的
  If you describe someone or something asloathsome, you are indicating how much you dislike them or how much they disgust you.
  1. ...the loathsome spectacle we were obliged to witness.
     我们不得不目睹的令人恶心的场面。

英英释义

adj

• highly offensive
  1. a disgusting smell
  2. distasteful language
  3. a loathsome disease
  4. the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
  5. revolting food
  6. a wicked stench
  Synonym:disgustingdisgustfuldistastefulfoulloathlyrepellentrepellantrepellingrevoltingskankywickedyucky
• causing or able to cause nausea
  1. a nauseating smell
  2. nauseous offal
  3. a sickening stench
  Synonym:nauseatingnauseousnoisomequeasyoffensivesickeningvile

双语例句

• Loathsome men, men against God and against nature.
  令人作呕的男人，违背上帝与自然的男人。
• The witch hid her loathsome face with her hands.
  巫婆用手掩住她那张令人恶心的脸。
• In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense.
  在她所有的不幸遭遇中，再没有比这种感受更使她难堪和厌恶的了。
• He is not afflicted with any loathsome, dangerous or contagious disease;
  他没有染上了任何令人作呕，危险或传染性的疾病；
• Time has helped me understand him better. I finally realized his remark that I am "some loathsome vermin fit only for extermination" was said more out of compassion than anger.
  岁月流逝，让我能够更好地理解他，我终于明白他说我是“一种讨人厌的害虫，只应当被消灭”时，与其说是出于生气，倒不如说是出于同情。
• I can't see any of this helping much: its only effect would be to make doing your job so loathsome that you might not be sorry if you ended up losing it.
  我看不出这些建议有多大帮助：它唯一的影响将会是使你的工作如此令人讨厌，如果你最终失去工作，你或许不会感到遗憾。
• I have just escaped, by my great daring and cleverness, from a loathsome dungeon into which my enemies had flung me.
  我凭着自己过人的智慧和胆识，刚刚从暗无天日的地牢里逃出来，我坐牢是由于我的敌人加害于我。
• Finally, he didn't have to use that loathsome disguise anymore.
  他终于能停止使用那令人生厌的伪装了。
• Or, must she receive those intimations-so obscure, yet so distinct-as truth? In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense.
  或许，她应该把那些如此含糊又如此明晰的暗示当作真理来接受吧？在她所有的不幸遭遇中，再没有比这种感受更使她难堪和厌恶的了。
• For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
  我满腰是火。我的肉无一完全。