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

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。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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.

• evil剑桥字典
• evil柯林斯字典

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)