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Vice Vaɪs Immoral Criminal Drugs Tool Object Work

Vice is a noun with multiple meanings: criminal activities related to sex or drugs, a bad habit considered a weakness, and a tool used to hold objects firmly for work (as used in British English).

vice 是一个名词,有几种含义:与色情或毒品相关的犯罪活动,一种被视为弱点的坏习惯,以及用来夹紧物体以便工作的工具(在英式英语中)。

word vice
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vice ★★★☆☆
/va͟ɪs/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]缺点;瑕疵;弱点 A vice is a habit which is regarded as a weakness in someone's character, but not usually as a serious fault.
  • His only vice is to get drunk on champagne after concluding a successful piece of business...

    他唯一的缺点就是在成功做成一笔生意后会大喝香槟而醉。

  • Intellectual pretension was never one of his vices.

    他从来不附庸风雅。

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指与色情业、卖淫行为相关的)犯罪活动,恶行 Vice refers to criminal activities, especially those connected with pornography or prostitution.
  • He said those responsible for offences connected with vice, gaming and drugs should be deported on conviction.

    他说,那些被指控与卖淫、赌博和吸毒有关的人一旦罪名成立就应该被驱逐出境。

  • ...allegations of how she worked in a 'seedy vice den'.

    对她在“肮脏淫窝”里如何工作的说法

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]老虎钳;台钳 A vice is a tool with a pair of parts that hold an object tightly while you do work on it.
  [BRIT 英]
    in AM, use 美国英语用 vise

    Oxford vice / vaɪs ; NAmE vaɪs / noun _tools_diy_comp.jpg _vice.jpg 1 [uncountable ] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs (与性或毒品有关的)罪行 plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad 取缔性或毒品犯罪行动队的便衣侦探 2 [uncountable ,  countable ] evil or immoral behaviour; an evil or immoral quality in sb's character 恶行;不道德行为;堕落;邪恶 The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded. 这部电影的结尾皆大欢喜:邪恶受到惩治,美德得到报偿。 Greed is a terrible vice. 贪婪是一种恶习。 ( humorous) Cigarettes are my only vice. 我唯一的罪过就是爱抽烟。 3 ( BrE) ( NAmE vise ) [countable ] a tool with two metal blocks that can be moved together by turning a screw. The viceis used to hold an object firmly while work is done on it. 台钳;虎钳 He held my arm in a vice-like (= very firm) grip. 他的手像虎钳一样紧紧抓住了我的手臂。 vice vices viced vicing vice / vaɪs ; NAmE vaɪs /
    LDC
    vicevice /vaɪs/ noun
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    1vice (4) [uncountable] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs:  the fight against vice on the streets The police have smashed a vice ring (=a group of criminals involved in vice) in Chicago.2[countable] a bad habit:  Smoking is my only vice.3[countable, uncountable] a bad or immoral quality in a person, or bad or immoral behaviour OPP  virtue:  Jealousy is a vice. to reward virtue and punish vice4[countable] (usually vise AmE) a tool that holds an object very firmly so that you can work on it:  He held my arm like a vice.
    vice-like
    WDF

    vice

    [vaɪs]

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    vices[1013]
    恶习(30%),邪恶(17%),缺点(16%),代替(9%),副的(8%),老虎钳(8%),代理的(5%),罪行(4%),生理缺陷(3%)
    prep.代替
    n.恶习;缺点;[机] 老虎钳;卖淫
    adj.副的;代替的
    vt.钳住
    n.(Vice)人名;(塞)维采

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