For him business small talk is an anathema.生意场上的闲谈让他感到厌恶。

Violence was anathema to them.他们对暴力深恶痛绝。

I cut short his incoherent anathemas by handing him a screwdriver.我递给他一把螺丝刀, 打断了他语无伦次的咒骂。