流逝汉英词典

evil

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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

同根派生

  • adv性質的同根詞
    evilly：邪惡地。
  • n性質的同根詞
    evilness：邪惡；惡運；有害。

用法辨析

    n. (名詞)

  • evil表示抽象的“罪惡”時,爲不可數名詞; 表示具躰的“壞事,邪惡的事,禍害”時,爲可數名詞。evil有時還可作“惡言,誹謗”解。

英汉例句

    用作形容詞 (adj.)

    用作定語: ～+ n.

  • 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。

    • 用作名詞 (n.)

  • Love of money is the root of all evil.
    愛錢是邪惡的根源。

词组短语

    用作形容詞 (adj.)

    ～+名詞

  • 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

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant
  • something that is very bad and harmful

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.

专业释义

    法學

  • 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)

    • 哲學

  • 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

    • 計算機科學技術

  • 可延伸眡頻交談語言 (extensible video interactive language)