perversity

英 [pə'vɜːsɪtɪ] 美
  • n. 邪恶;任性;性变态

低频词

英英释义


1. deliberate unruliness
2. deliberately deviating from what is good

实用场景例句


It would be wrong to continue out of perversity.
为了故意作对而继续这样做是不对的。

柯林斯例句

She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
她嫁给他纯粹是任性.

《简明英汉词典》

The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.
在我们最出色的人身上都有任性的一面.

辞典例句

He did it out of slick perversity.
他全然是出于不合情理的想法做了这件事的.

辞典例句

This about not loving her, physically, bodily, was a mere perversity on his part.
这种所谓不能在肉体上爱她完全是他一种反常的表现.

辞典例句

It is not simple moral perversity that keeps sex and violence on the air.
性和暴力的节目广为传播,这不单纯是道德沦丧.

辞典例句

This is very strange. It is strange to the point of perversity.
这实在是非常奇怪, 而且奇怪到很变态的一种心态.

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Was perversity, that I longed to talk to him?
是由于错乱, 我渴望和他交谈?

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The perversity of the weather did some damage to the crops.
反常的天气给作物带来了一些损害.

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Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.
箴6:14心中乖僻、常设恶谋 、 布散纷争.

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Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
24你要除掉邪 僻 的口,弃绝乖谬的嘴.

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It is not a perversity nowadays for a girl to have a crew cut.
现在女孩子剪平头并非是种反常的行为.

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助记提示


1、per- "through" 在这里引申为:由好的一方面through到不好的一方面,=> away;同类单词:pervert, perjury.
2、per- + vers- + -e.
3、literally "turn sb or sth through to the wrong way". => turned away from what is right, wrong.
4、该词来源于pervert的拉丁语对应词的过去分词。由此取形容词词性并引申出如今的含义。
5. per- + vers- + -ity.

双语例句


1. It would be wrong to continue out of perversity.
为了故意作对而继续这样做是不对的。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
她嫁给他纯粹是任性.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.
在我们最出色的人身上都有任性的一面.

来自辞典例句

4. Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy.
倾慕再加上任性便不难作出决定了.

来自辞典例句

5. He did it out of slick perversity.
他全然是出于不合情理的想法做了这件事的.

来自辞典例句

英文词源


perversity (n.)
1520s, from Middle French perversité "depravity, degeneracy" (12c.), from Latin perversitatem (nominative perversitas) "forwardness, untowardness," from perversus (see perverse).

词态变化


副词: perversely;形容词: perverse;