odious
odious 英 [ˈəʊdiəs] 美 [ˈoʊdiəs]
adj. 可憎的；讨厌的
- If something is odious it's hateful. If you become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the details of that odious trade.
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- adj. 可憎的；讨厌的
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1. So it is in this respect at least odious.
在这个方面至少是可憎的。
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2. Letters of business too! How odious I should think them!
还得写事务上的信，我看这是够厌烦的吧！
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3. The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there,the fiacre was far away.
他见了那姑娘，不禁心里有气，把他五法郎拿走的正是她，向她讨还吧，已经太迟，那辆出租马车早已不在原处，那辆轿车更是走得很远了，并且她也未必肯还。
- odious (adj.) late 14c., from Anglo-French odious, from Old French odieus (late 14c., Modern French odieux) or directly from Latin odiosus "hateful, offensive, unpleasant," from odium "hatred" (see odium).
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