| 词组 | repugnance |
| 释义 | repugnance When repugnance is used with a preposition, it is usually to: • ... her instinctive dignity and repugnance to any show of emotion —George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861 • ... a deep-seated repugnance to monopoly in almost any form —Neil J. Curry, Atlantic, December 1955 Other prepositions sometimes used with repugnance are for, toward, or towards: • ... they headed for a place prostrated by war which also shared their repugnance for arms —George Weiler, Saturday Evening Post, 1 Sept. 1956 • ... without at the same time restraining her repugnance toward the political philosophy of the Fascist states —Maurice Halperin, Foreign Affairs, October 1940 • ... having so far overcome his repugnance towards the language employed in their theoretical writings —Times Literary Supp., 8 Oct. 1954 Repugnance was also once used with against, as the OED shows, but we have no evidence that such usage still occurs. |
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