| 单词 | repulsion |
| 释义 | repulsion (once / 2933 pages) 1n 2n Repulsion is getting grossed out. If the thought of great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts makes you recoil in horror, then you've experienced repulsion, or an intense aversion to something. Where there's repulsion, there's disgust. Maybe gagging. Perhaps a few screams. In physics, repulsion describes how two magnets with the same charge jump away from each other, kind of like how most of us leap from the table when mom puts down a plate of Brussels sprouts. WORD FAMILYrepulsion: repulsions+/repulse: repulsed, repulses, repulsing, repulsion USAGE EXAMPLESHer hyper-texturized, sticky, steamy images play with the concepts of desire and repulsion as bedfellows. Time(Nov 22, 2016) I would say, however, that Roman Polanski’s film Repulsion had a huge effect on me. The Guardian(Oct 29, 2016) But racism is more like magnetism: capable of both attraction and repulsion. New York Times(Oct 25, 2016) 1 1n the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand Syn|Hyper standoff stand a defensive effort 2n the force by which bodies repel one another 2Syn|Ant|Hyper repulsive force attraction, attractive force the force by which one object attracts another force (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity n intense aversion Syn|Hyper horror, repugnance, revulsion disgust strong feelings of dislike |
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