基本释义
[verb] feel intense dislike or disgust for
[动词] 对……感到十分强烈的厌恶或憎恶
深入解读
Loathe 是一个很容易同形容词 loath 相混淆的单词，这两个单词都源自于古英语 lað （厌恶的、可恶的）。其中后者常用搭配 loath to do sth 作正式用语表示“不情愿、不乐意或勉强做某事”。
而 loathe 则主要用来表示“厌恶、讨厌、憎恶、极不喜欢”，常用搭配 loathe sb 或 loathe (doing) sth 表示对某人或某个事物感到十分强烈或者说极度的厌恶或不容忍，一般不用于进行时，比如：
- 爱因斯坦极不喜欢在学校死记硬背的学习。
Einstein loathed rote learning in school. - 士兵们从战场归来，分散到全国各地的大小城镇。他们中的许多人回来时对战争都深恶痛绝。
The soldiers came home from the war. They dispersed across the country, in big towns and small. Many of them returned with a deep loathing of war.
图书例句
She loathed that sort of person, the fallen women off the accommodation walk beside the Dodder that went with the soldiers and coarse men, with no respect for a girl’s honour, degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station.
她讨厌那种在多德尔河畔的客栈附近跟大兵以及粗俗的男人鬼混的浪荡女人。她们毫不爱惜少女的贞操，丢尽女人的脸，给抓到警察局去。
出自爱尔兰现代主义作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）于1922年出版的长篇小说《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）。
外刊例句
- The numbers will have doubtless gratified the limelight-loathing Mr Ortega, who is said in private to chide others to admire his company, not himself.
据说，不喜欢被关注的奥尔特加曾在私下不无责备地敦促他人去赞赏他的公司而不是他本人。毫无疑问，如今公司取得的数字定会令他感到欣慰。
——《经济学人》 - To welcome spring, students wrote about what they love and loathe about the season.
为了迎接春天，学生们写下了他们对这个季节的热爱和厌恶。
——《纽约时报》
常见短语
- loathe someone/something: 讨厌某人/某物
- Strongly loathe: 强烈厌恶
- Deeply loathe: 非常讨厌
- Openly loathe: 公开憎恨
- Truly loathe: 真心厌恶
- Intensely loathe: 强烈憎恨
- Completely loathe: 彻底厌恶
- Bitterly loathe: 怨恨地讨厌
- Profoundly loathe: 深深地讨厌
- Wholeheartedly loathe: 全心全意地憎恶
- loathe the idea: 讨厌这个想法
- loathe doing something: 讨厌做某事
- Absolutely loathe: 绝对讨厌
- Visibly loathe: 明显厌恶
- loathe the thought of: 讨厌想到
- loathe to admit: 不愿承认
- loathe the taste of: 讨厌的味道
- loathe to see: 不愿看到
- loathe the smell of: 讨厌的气味
- loathe to accept: 不愿接受
- loathe the sound of: 讨厌的声音
- loathe to believe: 不愿相信
- loathe the feeling of: 讨厌的感觉
- loathe to go: 不愿去
- loathe the sight of: 讨厌的景象
- loathe to think: 不愿思考
- loathe the idea of: 讨厌的想法
- loathe to speak: 不愿说话
- loathe the concept of: 讨厌的概念
- loathe to hear: 不愿听
- loathe the thought: 讨厌的想法
- loathe the feeling: 讨厌的感觉
- loathe to leave: 不愿离开
- loathe the idea: 讨厌的观念
- loathe to admit: 不愿承认
- loathe the taste of: 讨厌的味道
- loathe to see: 不愿看见
- loathe the smell of: 讨厌的气味
- loathe to accept: 不愿接受
- loathe the sound of: 讨厌的声音
- loathe to believe: 不愿相信
- loathe the feeling of: 讨厌的感觉
- loathe to go: 不愿去
- loathe the sight of: 讨厌的景象
- loathe to think: 不愿思考
- loathe the idea of: 讨厌的想法
- loathe to speak: 不愿说话
- loathe the concept of: 讨厌的概念
- loathe to hear: 不愿听
- loathe the thought: 讨厌的思想
同近义词
abhor: regard with disgust and hatred
detest: dislike intensely
abominate: detest; loathe
