Sinister
['sɪnɪstə] or ['sɪnɪstɚ]
解释:
(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
欧内斯特整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Left, on the left hand.[2]. Unlucky, inauspicious, unfortunate, untoward, disastrous, injurious.[3]. Wrong, bad, evil, perverse, corrupt, wicked, sinful, criminal.
鲍里斯校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong,unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding,repulsive, lowering
ANT:Lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest,honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank
校对:雷明顿
解释:
adj. left: on the left hand: evil: unfair: dishonest: unlucky: inauspicious malign.—adj. Sin′ister-hand′ed left-handed.—advs. Sin′isterly; Sinis′tra (mus.) with the left hand; Sin′istrad towards the left.—adj. Sin′istral belonging or inclining to the left: reversed.—n. Sinistral′ity.—adv. Sin′istrally.—n. Sinistrā′tion a turning to the left.—adj. Sin′istrous on the left side: wrong: absurd: perverse.—adv. Sin′istrously.
辛迪校对
例句:
- Repentance, replied the man, whose sinister brow gathered clouds as he spoke. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Her face was like a small, fine mask, sinister too, masked with unwilling suffering. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Those are the very things I most wish they had left us, said Clayton, and the fact that they wished for them and them alone is most sinister. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- A drugged, almost sinister religious expression became permanent on her face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Night or day, one could not escape the sinister face, triumphant and radiant like this moon, with a high smile. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Having seen the evil results we have come to detest a conscious choice of issues, to feel that it smacks of sinister plotting. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The other was a red-headed, bony man, in top-boots; with a rather ill-favoured countenance, and a turned-up sinister-looking nose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Dark enough and sinister enough. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- You had better be careful, Sir,' said the little judge, with a sinister look at the witness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Birkin watched them with quick, laughing, half-sinister eyes, Ursula quite lost her head. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
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