Perversion
[pə'vɜːʃ(ə)n]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); 'it was a perversion of justice'.
(noun.) an aberrant sexual practice;.
(noun.) a curve that reverses the direction of something; 'the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion'; 'perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords'.
編輯:罗达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
手打:洛雷塔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Impairment, injury, vitiation, corruption, debasement, prostitution, abasement.
編輯:兰德尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Abuse, misrepresentation, distortion, corruption, misinterpretation,caricature, sophistry
ANT:Use, conservation, representation, right, truth, portraiture, manifestation,explanation, interpretation, reason, correction, authentication, verification
編輯:摩尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Of these the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I saw in this that I, too, was tormented by a perversion of ingenuity, even while the prize was reserved for me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I certainly do not admire the end he serves: the extension of an autocrat's power is a frivolous perversion of government. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Horrid perversion of Scripture and of religion! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Instead of being its transcript, it was a perversion. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I do not make perversions. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
手打:奈杰尔