释义 |
unˈpleasure [un-1 12.] a. Unpleasantness; (something that causes) displeasure.
1792F. Burney Jrnl. Jan. (1972) I. 111, I told him, very truly, of the pleasure with which I had re-entered his Roof—but I [write] the unpleasures that followed! 1814Coleridge Lett. (1895) 639, I don't like to use any words that might give you unpleasure. 1839J. Hodgson in Raine Mem. (1858) II. 411 Walked about half a mile with great unpleasure. b. Psychoanalysis. [tr. G. unlust.] The sense of inner pain, discomfort, or anxiety which results from the blocking of an instinctual impulse by the ego and is the opposite of the affect of pleasure.
1919A. Wohlgemuth in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Monogr. Suppl. VI. i. 1 The affective elements are Pleasure-Unpleasure. 1925I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xii. 95 Unpleasure being frustrated, chaotic, mal-successful activity. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xv. 208 The nervous processes which determine the pleasure-unpleasure tone of emotional experience. 1974Nature 11 Oct. 500/2 The monkeys' ‘interest’ overrode—so long as it lasted—their ‘unpleasure’. |