英语单词 | spite |
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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 | 1 [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.
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]
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.
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]
5 to cut off your nose to spite your face→see: nose ; |
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