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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I should think it an extremely loathsome profession.
  我看那是个极其讨厌的职业。
• 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。
• "what a loathsome existence!"
  “多无聊的生活！”
• Bringing the loathsome Saddam Hussein to justice should have been a propaganda victory for the United States.
  将臭名昭著的萨达姆·侯赛因正法，本应是美国一次宣传上的胜利。
• What exactly have they accomplished? Apart from being loathsome.
  他们取得了什么成就啊？除了成功地令人作呕。
• The men are a loathsome form of life.
  这些人属于人类生命中令人齿冷的那一类型。
• Isn't it loathsome! Isn't it petty!
  这是多么荒谬！这是多么无聊！