🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 25014 COCA: 24076

repulsion

noun

re·​pul·​sion ri-ˈpəl-shən How to pronounce repulsion (audio)
1
: the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed
2
: the action of repelling : the force with which bodies, particles, or like forces repel one another
3
: a feeling of aversion : repugnance

Example Sentences

I read about what happened with a feeling of shock and repulsion. She felt a repulsion for politics. a repulsion between the particles their successful repulsion of the attack
Recent Examples on the Web Lizzo’s music forces a political response, and sometimes repulsion. Armond White, National Review, 29 June 2022 The push-pull tension between attraction and repulsion compels reflection on the ways in which fashion is inevitably about more than clothes. New York Times, 29 June 2022 Adding an extra layer of repulsion to outsiders, Disney adults’ ability to escape into this fantasy is almost entirely dependent on their ability to afford it. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022 Electromagnetic force was well explained by quantum field theory, which pictured attraction or repulsion as an exchange of massless particles—photons—able to travel across unlimited distances. Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 3 June 2022 But at higher energies, protons generate a magnetic field that counters this repulsion, and more can fit into the same space. Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022 My repulsion towards my scars didn't stem from any sadness that my arm was gone. Allure, 19 Apr. 2022 Murphy’s live-in-concert repulsion fantasias belie a tenderness that resides at the core of some of his work. New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022 Engineers and molecular geneticists built a web server that can analyze noncoding RNA’s raw CLASH data, and scientists described the cognitive repulsion mechanism that causes people to get lost in supermarkets. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English repulsioun, borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French repulcion, repulsion, borrowed from Medieval Latin repulsiōn, repulsiō "action of driving away or expelling" (Late Latin, "refutation"), derivative, with the suffix of verbal action -tiōn-, -tiō, of Latin repellere "to push away, drive back, fend off " (with -s- from past participle and verbal noun repulsus) — more at repel

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of repulsion was in the 15th century

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime