| 单词 | off-putting |
| 释义 | off-puttingWord family nounoffingoffishnessoffbeatoff-chanceoffcutoffhandednessoff-licenceoffprintoffputoff-puttingoff-rampoffscouringoffscumoffseasonoffsetoffshootoffsideoffsideroffspringofftakeadjectiveoffishoff-airoff-centreoff-dutyoffhandedoff-keyofflineoffpeakoff-pisteoff-roadoffsetableoff-siteoff-streetoff-whiteadverboffishlyoffhandoffhandedlyoff-messageoffshoreoffverboffloadoffsaddle ˈoff-ˌputting adjectiveadj British EnglishBrE UNPLEASANTif someone’s behaviour or the appearance of something is off-putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive 〔某人的举止或某物的外观〕令人气恼的；令人讨厌的 Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off-putting. 有些女性觉得这种互不相让的讨论方式令人反感。 —off-puttingly adverbadv → put somebody/something off at putExamples from the Corpus off-putting• Apparently he found use of the sleeve very off-putting.• Sometimes I cycled in from Bourn, but the eight miles all uphill on the return was a bit off-putting.• They had gnomes in the garden, which was even more off-putting.• While not exactly threatening, her demeanour was hard and off-putting.• Yet this is not the cold, off-putting abstraction which arouses incomprehension in the ordinary spectator.• She remembered her own off-putting attitude the day after it had happened.• The resultant disturbances of the water and the movement is very off-putting to herons and cats. |
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