And though he was looking closely over her shoulder, it still seemed to me, as on the former occasion, that Zenobia repelled him,--that, perchance, they mutually repelled each other, by some incompatibility of their spheres.英文原著 · 《The Blithedale Romance》
You will be at their house this even- ing; promise me to observe everything. I know you are experienced in these matters, you know women better than I. Women! Women! Who can understand them? Their smiles contra- dict their glances, their words promise and allure, but the tone of their voice repels. At one time they grasp and divine in a moment our most secret thoughts, at another they cannot under- stand the clearest hints. Take Princess Mary, now: yesterday her eyes, as they rested upon me, were blazing with passion; to-day they are dull and cold" .英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Then, perhaps, she would understand everything. She said this to herself quite calmly. Her mood was changed. The fire had died down in her, and she felt almost sluggish, although still restless. The monstrous idea had come to her again. She did not vehemently repel it. By nature she was no doubt an impulsive. But now she meant to be a watcher.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
At present this bed was rolled up, and in consequence towered to a considerable height. The parrot looked at Hermione coldly, with round, observant eyes whose pupils kept contracting and expanding with a monotonous regularity. She felt as if it had a soul that was frigidly ironic. Its pertinacious glance chilled and repelled her, and she fancied it was reflected in the faces of the women round her. "Can I speak to you alone for a few minutes?" she asked Maddalena. Maddalena turned to the two women and spoke to them loudly in dialect. They replied. The old woman spoke at great length.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Till that moment she had not recognized me. I ran to catch her as she all but fell. And my touch repelled her into life, so that she shook me off, and stood gasping: "You, of all men! You, of all men!" until I could bear it no more, but broke again for the study-window. "Not that way - not that way!" she cried in an agony at that. Her hands were upon me now. "In there, in there," she whispered, pointing and pulling me to a mere cupboard under the stairs, where hats and coats were hung; and it was she who shut the door on me with a sob.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
And you have not claimed the high ground from where you can repel the siege.美剧 · 《Billions》
The fifth commandment tells us to honor our parents, no matter how hideous or repellent they may be.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
But no! He has to get me the "woman repeller"!美剧 · 《Friends》
I have to do something to repel this woman.美剧 · 《Friends》