evil
n. 邪恶, 不幸, 罪恶 a. 邪恶的, 不幸的, 有害的, 讨厌的
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教材释义与例句
罪恶，邪恶；不幸
邪恶的；不幸的；有害的；讨厌的
释义与例句
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1.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
邪恶
恶
可数 不可数The evils of society include murder and theft.
Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
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Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
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A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
可数 废旧 不可数
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1.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
邪恶的
坏的
凶狠
恶质
an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351, “Before this, I never had any cause to suspect my wife of any conspiracy.” “You mean it never crossed your mind that she might have been told to whisper evil thoughts in your ear at night?”
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Morally corrupt.
If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
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Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100, An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282, It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.
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4.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
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Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
废旧an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
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Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
俚语 计算机 工程 数学Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
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wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
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injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
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badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
废旧It went evil with him.
词汇关系
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反义词 1
上位词 5
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词源
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). See -le for the supposed suffix. Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch euvel (“evil”), German übel (“bad, evil”), German Low German övel (“evil”), Luxembourgish iwwel (“queasy, nauseous; bad”), Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”).
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