répugner
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verb
to repel, disgust
to be loath or reluctantto do something
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- À travers la neige qui tombait, Maria regardait l'unique construction de planches, mi-étable et mi-grange, que son père et ses frères avaient élevée cinq ans plus tôt, et elle lui trouvait un aspect à la fois répugnant et misérable, maintenant qu'elle avait commencé à se figurer les édifices merveilleux des cités.Through the snow that fell, Maria looked at the only plank construction, half-stable and half-grange, which her father and brothers had raised five years earlier, and she found it both disgusting and miserable, now that she had begun to picture the wonderful buildings of the cities.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- La pauvreté lui répugnait, l’abjection la diminuait des deux tiers de sa grandeur.Poverty repulsed him, abjection reduced him by two thirds of his greatness.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- En effet, le sac de La Rochelle, l’assassinat de trois ou quatre mille huguenots qui se fussent fait tuer ressemblaient trop, en 1628, au massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy, en 1572; et puis, par-dessus tout cela, ce moyen extrême, auquel le roi, bon catholique, ne répugnait aucunement, venait toujours échouer contre cet argument des généraux assiégeants: La Rochelle est imprenable autrement que par la famine.Indeed, the bag of La Rochelle, the murder of three or four thousand Huguenots who had been killed were too similar, in 1628, to the massacre of the Saint-Barthélémy, in 1572; and then, above all that, this extreme means, to which the king, good Catholic, was in no way repugnant, always failed against this argument of the besieging generals: La Rochelle is impregnable other than by famine.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
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