affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting 呕吐的,作呕的 having eaten something which disagreed with me, I was a little bilious. 吃了不合我胃口的东西,我有点作呕。 a bilious attack. 一阵呕吐。 ■(of a colour) lurid or sickly (颜色)令人厌恶的,令人作呕的 a bilious olive hue. 令人厌恶的橄榄色。 ■(figurative)spiteful; bad-tempered (喻)脾气乖戾的,暴躁的 outbursts of bilious misogyny. 乖戾的厌女症突然发作。 ■(Physiology)of or relating to bile (生理)胆汁质的
派生 biliously adverb biliousness noun 语源
mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'biliary'): from Latin biliosus, from bilis 'bile'