| 单词 |
unpleasing |
| 释义 |
unˈpleasing, ppl. a.
[un-1 10, 5 b.]
Not pleasing; displeasing, unpleasant: a. To the senses.
c1480Henryson Test. Cres. 338, I mak Thy voice sa cleir, vnplesand, hoir, and hace. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 45 If thou..wert grim, Vgly,..Full of vnpleasing blots and sightlesse staines. 1617Woodall Surg. Mate (1639) 344 It hath an unpleasing taste. 1670Baxter Cure Church-Div. 169 Some of them will not take such unpleasing medicines. 1770Sir J. Reynolds Disc. iii. (1778) 83 [Such] a figure..may still have a certain union of the various parts, which may contribute to make them on the whole, not un⁓pleasing. 1797J. Dallaway Constantinople v. 86 A man of rank, remarkably unpleasing in his countenance and figure. 1817Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. X. ii. 476 Each leap being accompanied by a note that is far from unpleasing. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. i. 15 Instruments which sounded unpleasing to English ears.
b. To the mind or feelings.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. ii. (S.T.S.) II. 57 Ȝe wald defend sic thingis vnder coloure of ȝoure rigorus & vnplesand lawis. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 912 Cuckow, Cuckow: O word of feare, Vnpleasing to a married eare. 1605Gunpowder Plot in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 5, I thought it would not be unpleasing unto thee to join them together in the press. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 43 These Digressions..will not be unpleasing to a Reader of no over-rigid and unpleasant Disposition. 1735Johnson Lobo's Abyssinia, Descr. xv. 140 To put the unpleasing Remembrance of our past Labours out of our Minds. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. ix, The first thing which recalled him to those unpleasing circumstances. 1885Manch. Exam. 6 July 4/6 The appointment in itself must be unpleasing to the English Government. |
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