take exception

英語

動詞

take exception (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 takes exception，現在分詞 taking exception，過去式 took exception，過去分詞 taken exception)

1. (及物帶 to) 對...感到不快，反感，受到...的冒犯；反對

   I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists.

   我覺得那個開環保主義者玩笑的笑話冒犯到他了。

   I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.

   覺得只是因為我年輕我就沒辦法區分現實和虛構的成見讓我感到不快。

   • 1898 July 20, Percival A. Nairne, letter, published in the Lancet of 1898 December 10, page 1575:

     I am sorry to learn that the senior medical staff of the Dreadnought Hospital take exception to portions of Sir Henry Burdett's letter […] which was published in the Times of July 11th.

   • 1984, Jean S. McGill, Edmund Morris, Frontier Artist‎^[1], Dundurn Press, →ISBN，頁號 165:

     […] the body of a deceased Indian, wrapped in a blanket and reposing on the limbs of an old tree in the sandhills. Horatio Walker, then President of the Club and generally so sympathetic with artists, seemingly took exception to it, and Morris felt the silent criticism […]

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   • 1989, 「Asia Yearbook」, 出自 Far Eastern Economic Review‎^[2]，頁號 167:

     Upset, about 20 Kuala Lumpur-based judges met on 25 March and decided that Salleh should write to the king explaining their position. The king apparently took exception to the letter or to the manner in which it was sent […]

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