appall
appall 英 [ə'pɔ:l] 美 [əˈpɔl]
vt. 使胆寒；使惊骇
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- That tattoo on your lower back is likely to appall your mother. Just like her pink hair once appalled your grandmother. To appall is to shock and disgust.
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- vt. 使胆寒；使惊骇
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1. Defending murderers and thieves would appall them.
为杀人犯和小偷辩护会使他们吓得魂不附体。
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2. Gandhi’s nonconformist ways tend to appall and alienate secular-minded observers.
甘地不随主流的方法往往会吓跑和疏远那些有着世俗思想的旁观者。
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3. I used practically a whole bottle of red dye in the frosting, which in earlier days would appall me.
我在做糖霜时用了整整一瓶红色的染料，这在以前会把我自己吓死。
- appall (v.) also appal, early 14c., "to fade;" c. 1400, "to grow pale," from Old French apalir "become or make pale," from a- "to" (see ad-) + palir "grow pale," from Latin pallere "to be pale" (from PIE root *pel- (1) "pale"). Transitive meaning "cause dismay or shock," is 1530s. Related: Appalled; appalling.
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