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英语单词 spite
英美音标 英 [spaɪt] 美 [spaɪt]
中文释义 n.恶意;怨恨
v.刁难;惹怒;冒犯
英语例句 (1) I'm sure he took my parking space just out of spite.
(2) They trampled his flowers out of spite.
(3) There is no gall or spite in my soul.
(4) He took my best toy just out of spite!
(5) The bad children left the room dirty to spite their maid.
(6) He took my parking space just to spite me.
(7) The neighbours play their radio loudly every afternoon just to spite us.
中文例句 (1) 我认为他侵占我的停车位肯定是有意和我作对。
(2) 他们出于恶意踩了他的花。
(3) 我内心对谁都没有怨恨或恶意。
(4) 他仅仅出于怨恨拿走了我最好的玩具!
(5) 那些坏孩子把房间弄脏来刁难女佣人。
(6) 他为了使我恼怒而抢我的停车位。
(7) 邻居每天下午把收音机的音量开得很大,向我们泄愤。
vocabulary简明 When your sister told you that you looked terrible in your new tube top, she may have been saying it out of spite, or in a deliberately mean or offensive way.
vocabulary扩展 The noun spite means "a desire to offend." The word spite can also take the form of a verb, when it's used like this: "He only became a vegetarian to spite his cattle rancher father." Either way, spite implies a grudge, a desire to offend or hurt the feelings of someone by actions or words.
柯林斯解释
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[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]尽管;不顾;虽然 You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
  • Josef Krips at the State Opera hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage...

    尽管她从未在舞台上演唱过,国家歌剧院的约瑟夫·克里普斯还是聘用了她。

  • Their love of life comes in spite of, almost in defiance of, considerable hardship.

    尽管面临众多的艰难困苦,他们还是几乎义无反顾地表现出了对生活的热爱。

2
[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]不由自主地;不禁 If you do something in spite of yourself, you do it although you did not really intend to or expect to.
  [PREP pron-refl]
  • The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself...

    这番率直的话让理查德不由自主地大笑起来。

  • She was deeply moved and in spite of herself could not help showing it.

    她被深深地打动了,禁不住为之动容。

3
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]恶意;怨恨 If you do something cruel out of spite, you do it because you want to hurt or upset someone.
  • I refused her a divorce, out of spite I suppose...

    我拒绝和她离婚,就是为了出口恶气。

  • Never had she met such spite and pettiness.

    她从未见过这样的怨恨和偏狭。

4
[VERB 动词](故意做坏事来)伤害,激怒 If you do something cruel to spite someone, you do it in order to hurt or upset them.
  [V n]
  [only to-inf]
  • Pantelaras was giving his art collection away for nothing, to spite Marie and her husband.

    潘特拉拉斯将自己的艺术藏品全都无偿捐了出去,存心要激怒玛丽和她的丈夫。

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to cut off your nose to spite your face→see:
nose

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