repugnant
repugnant 英 [rɪˈpʌgnənt] 美 [rɪˈpʌɡnənt]
adj. 讨厌的；矛盾的；敌对的
- Repugnant refers to something you detest so thoroughly it threatens to make you physically sick, like the idea of marrying your sister. Or wearing last year's jeans.
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- adj. 讨厌的；矛盾的；敌对的
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1. Furthermore, the whole concept of a minority (politicians) banning things for the majority is repugnant.
另外，少数人（指一些政客）代替绝大多数人对一些东西发布禁令这个现象本来就是矛盾的。
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2. I have never beaten my wife and never will. I find assault of others completely repugnant, and assault of women especially so.
我从没有也永远不会打我的妻子，我认为殴打他人的人非常令人反感，尤其是打女人。
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3. "[The photos are] repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States army," the statement said.
声明中说，“这些照片违背了美国军队的准则和价值观，也让同为人类一员的我们感到恶心”。
- repugnant (adj.) late 14c., "contrary, contradictory," from Old French repugnant "contradictory, opposing" or directly from Latin repugnantem (nominative repugnans), present participle of repugnare "to resist, fight back, oppose; disagree, be incompatible," from re- "back" (see re-) + pugnare "to fight" (from PIE root *peuk- "to prick"). Meaning "distasteful, objectionable" is from 1777.
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