Nausea

nausea







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n. (名詞 noun)[U]



          1.    噁心,作嘔;暈船

                      Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.

                      懷孕初期常伴有噁心。

          2.    極端的憎惡

                      She was filled with nausea at the sight of cruelty to animals.

                      她看到虐待動物滿腔厭惡。





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



nauseous, nauseated, nauseating (adjs.) 

   

The problem is whether nauseous can be restricted to meaning“causing nausea”

and nauseated to meaning“feeling nausea,”

which orderly division is what most Edited English tries to enforce. 



But alas for neatness, both adjectives have both meanings, though a few dictionaries insist that nauseous, meaning “feeling nausea,” is limited to Colloquial use. 



Best advice: follow the Edited English practice in speech and writing, and no one will object. In adjunct use nauseous and nauseating, meaning“causing nausea,”are roughly interchangeable in both adjunct and predicate adjective use and get a great deal of Standard figurative use meaning“sickening, disgusting.”