a strong feeling of not liking somebody/something 厭惡;憎惡 a strong aversion 深深厭惡 - aversion to somebody/something
He had an aversion to getting up early. 他十分討厭早起。
Extra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsc2People can be helped to overcome their aversion to snakes. 可以幫助人們克服對蛇的厭惡情緒。 He felt an overwhelming sense of aversion towards the young man standing before him. 他對站在他面前的年輕人有一種強烈的厭惡感。 She has a deep-rooted aversion to dogs, almost amounting to a phobia. 她對狗厭惡至極,幾乎到了恐懼的地步。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- strong
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally denoting the action of turning away or averting one's eyes): from Latin aversio(n-), from avertere, from ab- ‘from’ + vertere ‘to turn’.