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单词 loath
释义
loath
adjective
formal(alsoloth)
uk
/ləʊθ/us
/loʊθ/
be loath to dosomething
to beunwillingto do something:
不愿做…，不情愿干…
I'm loath tospendit all atonce.我不想把它一次花光。
Synonyms
averse
indisposed(NOT WILLING)formal
unwilling
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not wanting to do something
  • unwillingShe was unwilling to hand over the money.
  • loathI was loath to spend all the money at once.
  • balkThe MP balked at a proposal to raise council tax.
  • reluctantI was reluctant to leave because I was having such a good time.
  • disinclinedI am disinclined to take on the extra work without more pay.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unwilling and reluctant
  • arsed
  • balk
  • baulk
  • be blowed if...idiom
  • be in no mood forsomething/to dosomethingidiom
  • begrudge
  • compassion fatigue
  • deign
  • disinclination
  • disinclined
  • disobliging
  • fag
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • not have the stomach forsomethingidiom
  • ratheryouthanmeidiom
  • reluctance
  • reluctant
  • reluctantly
  • wouldn't
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(Definition ofloathfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

loath| American Dictionary

loath
adjective[+ to infinitive]
us
/loʊθ,loʊð/
unwilling;reluctant:
She’d be loath toadmitit, but she doesn’t really likeopera.
(Definition ofloathfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofloath

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Most governments areloathto increase water prices for fear of political retribution from an active farm lobby.
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In fact habaneros are generallyloathto own up to being especuladores (' speculators ').
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They are right to suspect that we would beloathto remove this rule; it serves the important function of preventing hallucinations.
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Without similar risk avoidance for other crops, farmers would naturally beloathto grow them.
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Physicians, as those in the profession are generallyloathto admit, have repeatedly grossly and systematically violated ethical norms.
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This meant, of course, that the proprietor must fully divest himself of his property during his lifetime, a step that many wereloathto take.
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Many social historians continue to heed his warning and areloathto use imaginative literature as a source.
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I "invented" my business and amloathto think of myself as an expert editor.
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They areloathto countenance properties that do not figure in our explanations in natural and social sciences.
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Not surprisingly, they provedloathto respond to their counterparts.
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Linguists know, however, that editors areloathto publish voluminous linguistic data.
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It shows itselfloathto internalize the negative force of the utterances of its others in such a way as to set into historical motion what it posits.
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Most officials wereloathto make such compromises out of a fear that accommodation would breed just the sense of askari superiority that the colonial administration hoped to forestall.
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Most historians areloathto accept that the significance of the past can be objectively determined, but consciously or unconsciously, they seek to impose significance upon the past.
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Her own innate scruples make herloathto occupy this all-providing, all-deciding, monolithic role among responsible, civilised mankind.
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