Villain
['vɪlən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately.
(noun.) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction.
汉密尔顿校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
(n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
(n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
(a.) Villainous.
(v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
編輯:罗伊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Rascal, knave, scoundrel, rogue, scamp, reprobate, scapegrace, miscreant, caitiff, vile wretch.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Scoundrel, ruffian, wretch,[See WATCHFUL]
康拉德編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a wicked wretch: a man extremely degraded: in feudal times a member of the lowest class of unfree persons.—ns. Vill′aināge Vill′anāge Vill′eināge Vill′enāge in feudal times the tenure of land by villein i.e. base or menial services.—adj. Vill′ainous like or suited to a villain: depraved: proceeding from extreme depravity: very bad mean vile.—adv. Vill′ainously.—ns. Vill′ainousness; Vill′ainy the act of a villain: extreme depravity: an atrocious crime.
整理:凯蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- See the old villain bound with ropes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Oh, you little un-grate-ful, mur-de-rous, hor-rid villain! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Out with the prating villain! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no word of our real plans has reached the villain's ear. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- His father must have been a most consummate villain, ever to have such a son. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That villain Alcibiades is getting ready for another assault. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We have had our eyes upon this Mr. Milverton for some time, and, between ourselves, he was a bit of a villain. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Come on, you young villain! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- You villain, you mean, mean, mean villain, I would have lost fifty diamonds, rather than see your face lying to me, as I see it lying now! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Think of that, you villain, you villain! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Come back, you young villain! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The circumcised villain blasphemeth the holy church, and Christian men listen and rebuke him not! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Theresa was always my friend, for she loved Mary and hated this villain almost as much as I did. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I do not know, said the man, what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It's evidently the same villains who broke into Acton's. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And when the culprits came before the dais,--How comes it, villains! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The villains, he said, the base treacherous villains, to desert me at this pinch! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yaas, to be sure I do, drawled Lord Ingram; and the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Pin the villains to the earth with my lance, Wamba, if they offered us any impediment. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated in the matter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Damascenes are the ugliest, wickedest looking villains we have seen. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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