恶心 (ě xin) — (adjective) nauseous, sickening, disgusting; (verb) to disgust, to gross out, to embarrass (deliberately)
Definition
恶心 (ěxin) is the everyday, physical word for disgust — both the feeling of nausea and something that grosses you out. 反感 is a more formal, psychological 'aversion/dislike'; 过不去 focuses on deliberately embarrassing someone.
adjective
nauseoussickeningdisgusting
verb
to disgustto gross outto embarrass (deliberately)
Examples
- 恶心。Wǒ zuò chuán de shí hou jué de fēi cháng ě xin.I felt very nauseous when I was on the boat.
- 恶心。Zhè zhǒng xíng wéi zhēn ràng rén ě xin.This kind of behavior is truly disgusting.
- 恶心。Nǐ jiù bié zài zhè lǐ ě xin rén le.Just stop grossing people out here.
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