Evil
['iːv(ə)l;-vɪl] or ['ivl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) morally objectionable behavior.
(noun.) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; 'attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world'.
(noun.) that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; 'the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones'- Shakespeare.
(adj.) morally bad or wrong; 'evil purposes'; 'an evil influence'; 'evil deeds' .
(adj.) having the nature of vice .
乔恩錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
(n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
(n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
校對:沃尔多
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Bad, ill, not good.[2]. Wicked, sinful, vicious, corrupt, perverse, wrong.[3]. Mischievous, hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious.[4]. Unhappy, unfortunate, calamitous, adverse, unpropitious.
n. [1]. Calamity, misfortune, disaster, reverse.[2]. Wickedness, sin, depravity, malignity, wicked disposition.[3]. Wrong, injury, mischief, harm.
編輯:瑞伊
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN: noxious, deleterious, wrong, bad, mischievous, hurtful, sinful,unhappy, adverse, unpropitious, wicked, corrupt, harmful, unfair, notorious,miserable, sorrowful
ANT:Wholesome, beneficial, right, virtuous, holy, pure, happy, fortunate,felicitous, joyous, welcome, grateful, good
奥布里校對
解釋/意思:
adj. wicked: mischievous: disagreeable: unfortunate.—adv. in an evil manner: badly.—n. that which produces unhappiness or calamity: harm: wickedness: depravity: sin.—ns. E′vil-do′er one who does evil; E′vil-eye a supposed power to cause evil or harm by the look of the eye.—adj. E′vil-fā′voured having a repulsive appearance: ugly.—n. E′vil-fā′vouredness (B.) ugliness: deformity.—adv. E′villy in an evil manner: not well.—adj. E′vil-mind′ed inclined to evil: malicious: wicked.—ns. E′vilness state of being evil: wickedness; E′vil-speak′ing the speaking of evil: slander.—adj. E′vil-starred (Tenn.) born under the influence of an unpropitious star unfortunate.—n. E′vil-work′er one who works or does evil.—The Evil One the devil.—Speak evil of to slander.
埃伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Undoubtedly, he said, the form of government which you describe is a mixture of good and evil. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- A certain Jarndyce, in an evil hour, made a great fortune, and made a great will. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The interruption was not unseasonable: sufficient for the day is always the evil; for this hour, its good sufficed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was a sad, anxious day; and the morrow, though differing in the sort of evil, did by no means bring less. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That the oldest had still hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him to retreat. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Yet, all things considered, she was not of an evil mind or an unkindly disposition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That is an evil contribution, unquestionably. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If he followed it by mere fortuitous coincidence, it was done by an evil chance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Fanny was silent; but not from being convinced that there might not be a remedy found for some of these evils. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Yes, he said, there are all the evils which we were just now passing in review: unrighteousness, intemperance, cowardice, ignorance. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Through all the world spreads the suspicion that this scheme of things might be remade, and remade better, and that our present evils need not be. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Evils, that are certain, have sometimes the same effect in producing fear, as the possible or impossible. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Many men, just as well aware of present-day evils as the socialists, are unwilling to accept the collectivist remedy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is not of particular, but of general evils, which I am now complaining. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
伊莉斯校對