anathema
anathema 英 [əˈnæθəmə] 美 [əˈnæθəmə]
n. 诅咒；革出教门；被诅咒者；令人厌恶的人
名词复数:anathemas
- Something that one absolutely and positively cannot stand is anathema. Garlic is anathema to vampires (ditto for stakes and daylight). So is kryptonite to Superman or a silver bullet to a werewolf.
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- n. 诅咒；革出教门；被诅咒者；令人厌恶的人
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1. Campbell summed up by saying that nutrition is holistic, a concept which is “anathema” to most scientists’ method.
坎贝尔总结说，营养是全面的，这个概念是对大多数科学家的方法的“诅咒”。
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2. But such approaches are anathema to the US Republican Party, and to its Tea Party faction in particular, and they might unnerve the many Asians who are nervous at China’s growing military might.
但美国共和党会认为这是一个诅咒而选择废止，而这对于茶叶党来说尤为特殊，也许还会扰动许多亚洲人的神经，这部分人多担忧日益增长的中国军力。
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3. Naturally, these views are anathema to modern Austrians in the tradition of Murray Rothbard, who think the central bank should be abolished.
事实上，这些观点是对罗斯巴德一派的现代奥地利学派的诅咒，因为奥地利学派认为中央银行必须取消。
- anathema (n.) 1520s, "an accursed thing," from Latin anathema "an excommunicated person; the curse of excommunication," from Ecclesiastical Greek anathema "a thing accursed," a slight variation of classical Greek anathāma, which meant merely "a thing devoted," literally "a thing set up (to the gods)," such as a votive offering in a temple, from ana "up" (see ana-) + tithenai "to put, to place," from reduplicated form of PIE root *dhe- "to set, put."
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