| 词组 | obnoxious |
| 释义 | obnoxious Obnoxious in its oldest sense means "exposed to something unpleasant or harmful": • O dangerous state of so sovereign pow'r! Obnoxious to the change of every hour.—George Villiers, The Rehearsal, 1672 • "... may render you only obnoxious to danger and disgrace...." —Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wild, 1743 This sense is etmologically accurate: obnoxious is derived ultimately from the Latin ob-, "exposed to" and noxa, "harm." This sense has, however, been entirely superseded by a sense "extremely offensive," which apparently (as the OED suggests) owes something to association with noxious. This sense is by no means new, having been first recorded more than 300 years ago: • A very obnoxious person; an ill neighbour — Anthony Wood, Life, 1675 (OED) • Mr. Arthur Lee could not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American —James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 Some commentators in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, led by Richard Grant White 1870, were unhappy about the "offensive" sense of obnoxious, but most seem to have realized that it was far too well established to be seriously opposed. No one now questions the correctness of this sense. |
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