(adj.) unequivocally detestable; 'abominable treatment of prisoners'; 'detestable vices'; 'execrable crimes'; 'consequences odious to those you govern'- Edmund Burke .
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It's abominable, to be sure; but St. Clare will have high life below-stairs, and they every one of them live just as they please. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
I have an abominable temper, and should be kicked for saying such a thing in my own house. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
How abominable! 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Does he really find time to read with a tutor, in the midst of all his business,--and this abominable strike in hand as well? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Oh, my tongue, my abominable tongue! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
No, I drank champagne and romped and tried to flirt, and was altogether abominable, said Meg self-reproachfully. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Jane, I will not trouble you with abominable details: some strong words shall express what I have to say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The pity was that her gratitude put her, in the law's eyes and the world's, on a par with her abominable husband. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Can such abominable pride as his have ever done him good? 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Why does he make that abominable noise? 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I say it's perfectly abominable for you to defend such a system! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
That's abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument. 柏拉图.理想国.
Mrs. Bute knew they would meet the abominable Rawdon there, and she was right. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week! 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
But I shall always think it a very abominable sort of proceeding. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
An abominable puppy! 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
If you don't turn off that abominable sheep-dog, said Lord Steyne, with a savage look over his shoulder at her, I will have her poisoned. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Many of the tools and expedients she used were abominable. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
I never heard anything so abominable. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
You are honest enough to acknowledge that your temper is abominable; for my part, I do not believe that there exists a woman who could endure it. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
So she winked hard, shook her head, and said gruffly because Amy was listening, It was an abominable thing, and she doesn't deserve to be forgiven. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Do I set my mind to analyse the abominable impossibility which, nevertheless, confronts me as an undeniable fact? 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It's abominable, the way you indulge them! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I _shall_ have a chance, I do! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Well--can there be anything more abominable? 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
He says it is abominable, and not like a gentleman. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.