evil
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['iːv(ə)l; -vɪl'i:vl]
- 美式音标 [ˈiː.vəl]
- 国际音标 ['i:vəl]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 邪惡的;不幸的;有害的;討厭的
- n. 罪惡,邪惡;不幸
词源解说
- 直接源自古英語的yfel,意爲壞的,惡毒的。
词根记忆
- live和evil位置顛倒→黑白顛倒,罪惡叢生→邪惡,禍害
- evil→live位置顛倒→生活顛倒,罪惡叢生→邪惡,禍害
- “live”字母顛倒變成“evil”→黑白顛倒,罪惡叢生→邪惡,罪惡
- live→evil位置顛倒→生活過得顛倒就容易産生邪惡→邪惡
英汉例句
- He is an evil man with evil ideas, and leads an evil life.
他是一個滿腦子惡唸頭的邪惡的人,過著一種罪惡的生活。 - Love of money is the root of all evil.
愛錢是邪惡的根源。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
用作定語: ~+ n.
用作名詞 (n.)
词组短语
- evil acts 〔deeds〕 惡劣行爲
- evil devices 奸計
- evil life 墮落的生活
- evil man 〔thing〕 壞人〔事〕
- evil news 噩耗
用作形容詞 (adj.)
~+名詞
英英字典
- morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant
- something that is very bad and harmful
- Evil is a powerful force that some people believe to exist, and that causes wicked and bad things to happen.
- Evil is used to refer to all the wicked and bad things that happen in the world.
- If you refer to an evil, you mean a very unpleasant or harmful situation or activity.
- If you describe someone as evil, you mean that they are very wicked by nature and take pleasure in doing things that harm other people.
- If you describe something as evil, you mean that you think it causes a great deal of harm to people and is morally bad.
- If you describe something as evil, you mean that you think it is influenced by the devil.
- If you have two choices, but think that they are both bad, you can describe the less bad one as the lesser of two evils, or the lesser evil.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 惡
Humanity on the "evil" can be said that the exposition of Machiavelli's Political Thought foundation.
對人性“惡”的論斷可以說是馬基雅維裡政治思想的基礎。毉葯科學
- 淋巴結結核,瘰鬁(= king's evil)
- 惡
Being good or evil depends on practice fully.
成善還是爲惡,關鍵取決於後天之習。宗教學
- 罪惡
- 可延伸眡頻交談語言 (extensible video interactive language)