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repulsed

/ri-puhls/US // rɪˈpʌls //UK // (rɪˈpʌls) //

击退,被击退,被击退的,击退了

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v.有主动词 verb
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    re·pulsed, re·puls·ing.

    • : to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
    • : to repel with denial, discourtesy, or the like; refuse or reject.
    • : to cause feelings of repulsion in: The scenes of violence in the film may repulse some viewers.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of repelling.
    • : the fact of being repelled, as in hostile encounter.
    • : a refusal or rejection.

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Examples

  • How did warring, factionalized city-states on the edge of the known world repulse the first superpower?

  • And if I were Christie, a song like "41 Shots" would repulse me.

  • The Repulse Isles are of small size; they are surrounded by rocks, which do not extend more than a quarter of a mile from them.

  • Gwynne was not in the humor to repulse anybody, and assured her that she really made him feel that he had returned to his home.

  • The three men leaped to their feet, and seizing their arms, prepared bravely to repulse the enemies who attacked them so suddenly.

  • Her repulse was a mortal offence: small minds never forget, much less pardon a rebuke to their vanity, and he inly swore revenge.

  • In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.