英语词典 · 单词释义
vicious
英 ['vɪʃəs] 美 ['vɪʃəs]
这里集中整理“vicious”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词,方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 恶毒的;恶意的;堕落的;有错误的;品性不端的;剧烈的
- n. (Vicious)人名;(英)维舍斯
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
比较级: more vicious;最高级: most vicious;副词: viciously;名词: viciousness;
助记提示
1. vice => vicious.
中文词源
vicious 恶性的
来自vice,罪行,邪恶,引申词义恶性的。比较virtuous circle.
英文词源
- vicious (adj.)
- late 14c., "unwholesome, impure, of the nature of vice, wicked, corrupting, pernicious, harmful;" of a text, "erroneous, corrupt," from Anglo-French vicious, Old French vicios "wicked, cunning, underhand; defective, illegal" (Modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiosus (Medieval Latin vicious) "faulty, full of faults, defective, corrupt; wicked, depraved," from vitium "fault" (see vice (n.1)).
Meaning "inclined to be savage or dangerous" is first recorded 1711 (originally of animals, especially horses); that of "full of spite, bitter, severe" is from 1825. In law, "marred by some inherent fault" (late 14c.), hence also this sense in logic (c. 1600), as in vicious circle in reasoning (c. 1792, Latin circulus vitiosus), which was given a general sense of "a situation in which action and reaction intensify one another" by 1839. Related: Viciously (mid-14c., "sinfully"); viciousness.
双语例句
- 1. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.
- 制造商之间的恶性价格战已将利润削减到了最低。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. That second night, Sid Vicious chucked a bottle at the stage.
- 第二天晚上,席德·维瑟斯朝舞台上扔了个瓶子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He was a vicious gossip.
- 他总是喜欢说别人的坏话。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. She was furtive and vicious by temperament.
- 她本来做事就偷偷摸摸,心肠狠毒。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. a vicious slander on the company's good name
- 对那家公司良好声誉的恶意诽谤
来自《权威词典》
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