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单词 anathema
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
a•nath•e•ma /əˈnæθəmə/USA pronunciation   n., pl. -mas. 
  1. a person or thing detested or loathed: [uncountable]The idea of extravagance is anathema to them.[countable]It was an anathema to her way of thinking.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
a•nath•e•ma  (ə nathə mə),USA pronunciation n., pl. -mas. 
  1. a person or thing detested or loathed:That subject is anathema to him.
  2. a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
  3. a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
  4. any imprecation of divine punishment.
  5. a curse;
    execration.
  • Greek: a thing accursed, devoted to evil, origin, originally devoted, equivalent. to ana(ti)thé(nai) to set up + -ma noun, nominal suffix
  • Latin
  • 1520–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
anathema /əˈnæθəmə/ n ( pl -mas)
  1. a detested person or thing: he is anathema to me
  2. a formal ecclesiastical curse of excommunication or a formal denunciation of a doctrine
  3. the person or thing so cursed
  4. a strong curse; imprecation
Etymology: 16th Century: via Church Latin from Greek: something accursed, dedicated (to evil), from anatithenai to dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to set
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