detestable

音标发音

• 英式音标 [dɪˈtes.tə.bəl]
• 美式音标 [dɪˈtes.tə.bəl]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj.可憎的；令人厌恶的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them.
  所以你们要守我所吩咐的，免得你们随从那些可憎的恶俗，就是在你们以先的人所常行的，以致玷污了自己。
• And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
  我先要加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶。 因为他们用可憎之尸玷污我的地土，又用可厌之物充满我的产业。
• Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.
  因犹大王玛拿西行这些可憎的恶事比先前亚摩利人所行的更甚，使犹大人拜他的偶像，陷在罪里。

权威例句

• There are at least three things that make the rental-car business great for customers but utterly detestable for investors.
  FORBES: Connect
• There is always the human impulse to want to punish detestable behavior, even if the lingering threat from the miscreant is minimal.
  FORBES: Confronting a Prison-Industrial Complex
• He rejected it because he perceived it, too, as a constraint, and not just any constraint but a bastard creature, a detestable hybrid of snow and rock and paper.
  NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

词组短语

短语

• detestable act 可恶的行为
• detestable ADJ 可憎的
• detestable e 嫌恶的
• Detestable pirates 可恨的倭寇
• utterly detestable 可恶之极

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• used to refer to people or things that you hate very much

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that someone or something is detestable, you mean you dislike them very much.