evil

adj. 邪恶的；不幸的；有害的；讨厌的

n. 罪恶，邪恶；不幸

adj.

邪恶的，罪恶的；有害的；不幸的，不吉的；品行坏的

n.

邪恶，罪恶；坏事，恶行；邪恶的力量、势力或化身；灾祸

变形

复数：evils

双语释义

邪恶的,坏的 not good morally; wicked; harmful

讨厌的,使人不舒服的 very unpleasant

[U][C]邪恶,罪恶,祸害 great wickedness or misfortune

英英释义

evil[ 'i:vəl ]

n.

morally objectionable behavior

同义词：immoralitywickednessiniquity

that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune

"the evil that men do lives after them"; "the good is oft interred with their bones"

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

"attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

同义词：evilness

adj.

morally bad or wrong

"evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

having the nature of vice

同义词：vicious

tending to cause great harm

同义词：harmfulinjurious

having or exerting a malignant influence

同义词：maleficmalevolentmalign

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

evil acts〔deeds〕恶劣行为

evil devices奸计

evil life堕落的生活

evil man〔thing〕坏人〔事〕

evil news噩耗

evil tongue谗言

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

breed an evil产生弊病

bring evil带来灾难

do evil作恶

oppose〔overcome〕 the evil反对〔战胜〕罪恶

rectify〔redress〕 an evil纠正弊病

resist the evil抵抗邪恶

root off〔out〕 evil根除灾难

speak evil说坏话

形容词+～

crying〔necessary〕 evil急需克服〔不可避免〕的弊病

existing evils当前的弊病

longstanding evil由来已久的弊病

terrible evil可怕的灾祸

vast evil大灾祸

～+名词

evil thoughts邪念

词组短语

evil spirit恶魔；妖精

speak evil of说坏话；诽谤

do evil作恶；为非作歹；干坏事；造孽

necessary evil n. 无可避免之灾祸

axis of evil邪恶轴心

resident evil生化危机（原为日本恐怖游戏，后改编为电影）

evil deeds邪恶的行为；邪行

evil intention歹意；罪恶的动机

evil eye n. 有些人具有目视他人而使之遭殃的能力；恶毒眼光

evil thoughts邪念

evil consequence恶果

evil wind阴风；贼风

social evil n. 对社会大众有害的事物；社会恶习

evil empire邪恶帝国

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“坏的”的意思，其区别是：

ill与evil意义接近，但语气弱一些，常指道德或性质方面的不良。

poor普通用词，侧重指事物的质量或数量低于标准或不合要求。用于指天气与食品时可与bad通用。

bad含义广泛，指任何不好的或不合需要的品质。

evil语气比bad强，强调道德上的邪恶不良，含狡猾凶险或危害他人的意味。

wicked语气比evil强，指居心叵测，任意违反道德标准，有意作恶。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

His evil designs were frustrated.
他的罪恶企图未能得逞。

The book gives, as it were, a picture of the evil old society.
这本书可谓是展现过去那个邪恶社会的图画。

Drug dealer is evil to the society.
毒品交易者有害社会。

What an evil smell!
多么臭的气味！

用作名词(n.)

My father taught me to render good for evil.
我父亲教导我要以德报怨。

Money is thought to be the root cause of all evils.
金钱被认为是万恶之源。

Separation from her grandfather was the greatest evil she could dread.
同外祖父分离是她最担心的一种灾祸。

权威例句

evil

evil: [OE] Evil has got distinctly worse over the millennia. Originally it seems to have signified nothing more sinister than ‘uppity’, and in the Old and Middle English period it meant simply ‘bad’; it is only in modern English that its connotations of ‘extreme moral wickedness’ came to the fore. It probably comes ultimately from *upelo- a derivative of the Indo-European base *upo- ‘under’ (source of Greek hupó ‘under’, Sanskrit upa ‘at, to’, and English up and over), and so its underlying connotation is of ‘exceeding due limits, extremism’.Its Germanic descendant was *ubilaz, source of German übel ‘evil’ as well as English evil.=> over, up

evil (adj.)

Old English yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious, ill, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (cognates: Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, Dutch euvel, Old High German ubil, German übel, Gothic ubils), from PIE *upelo-, from root *wap- "bad, evil" (cognates: Hittite huwapp- "evil"). In Old English and other older Germanic languages other than Scandinavian, "this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm (n.), crime, misfortune, disease (n.). In Middle English, bad took the wider range of senses and evil began to focus on moral badness. Both words have good as their opposite. Evil-favored (1520s) meant "ugly." Evilchild is attested as an English surname from 13c. The adverb is Old English yfele, originally of words or speech. Also as a noun in Old English, "what is bad; sin, wickedness; anything that causes injury, morally or physically." Especially of a malady or disease from c. 1200. The meaning "extreme moral wickedness" was one of the senses of the Old English noun, but it did not become established as the main sense of the modern word until 18c. As a noun, Middle English also had evilty. Related: Evilly. Evil eye (Latin oculus malus) was Old English eage yfel. The jocular notion of an evil twin as an excuse for regrettable deeds is by 1986, American English, from an old motif in mythology.

evil (n.)

Old English yfel (see evil (adj.)).

1. Virtue will prevail against evil.

美德定将战胜邪恶。

《21世纪大英汉词典》

2. Deliver us from evil.

拯救我们脱离邪恶。

《21世纪大英汉词典》

3. This evil practice should be wiped out [off] the face of the earth.

这种恶习必须从世界上铲除干净。

《新英汉大辞典》

4. I ask all of you to support and assist your bishops and to work together with them in combating this evil.

我要求你们所有的人都要支持和协助你们的主教，和他们一起同罪恶斗争。

5. Of course, the evil scientist would have to be outside? or would he?

当然，邪恶的科学家必须是在缸外面喽？ 是这样吗？

6. Then how can there be evil?

那么罪恶又是怎样产生的呢？

7. Imagine that I offered it to you with but one condition - that you must use it for good, not evil.

再想象下我可以把它提供给你，只须唯一一个条件-你只能用它向善，而不能作恶。

8. All the habits of Man are evil.

人类所有的习惯都是罪恶的。

9. I knew it was because he was evil because He didn’t believe in God, the only God.

我还知道他之所以被杀，是因为他是邪恶的，他从不相信唯一的造物主-----上帝。

10. So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom.

事情从来如此，一种邪恶的行为不管有否这种表征，从来都带有这种厄运的品性。

11. “The people were evil and they asked me to,” he said.

“这些人是邪恶的，是他们让我这样做的，”亚伦说.

12. Those who died here, those who saved life here—they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

我相信我们会过得更好，因为那些在这里逝去的人们和生命得到挽救的人们都会让我相信：我们或许不能消除掉这世上所有的邪恶，但我们却完全可以决定用什么方式去对待另一个人。

13. Like the notion of evil itself, they have ancient origins and appear in folklore and literature across the world.

像邪恶本身的概念，他们历史悠久，并且在世界上所有民间传说和文艺作品中都有出现。

14. If I were evil, I would hate me, the Buddhist thinks.

如果我是邪恶的，我会憎恨自己，佛教徒想着。

15. But while there is some good in rock music, there is much evil.

然而，摇滚乐里有不少好作品，但是邪恶的作品更多。

16. And how much potential for evil can we tolerate to obtain something that might be good?

为了获得可能有益的东西，我们对邪恶的隐患能容忍到何种程度？

17. First,the world itself which is material is evil.

第一，这个物质的世界本身就是罪恶的。

18. But before we get outraged at the corruption of it all, we should give everyone involved the benefit of the doubt and consider how this might have happened without evil influences.

在我们为民主的腐败感到愤怒之前，我们应该让每一个相关的人知道做出质疑的好处，并且考虑没有这种恶势力时情况会变得怎么样。

19. Every pleasure then because of its natural kinship to us is good, yet not every pleasure is to be chosen; even as every pain also is an evil, yet not all are always of a nature to be avoided.

就其与我们之自然联系而言，每一种快乐都是善的，然而并非每一种快乐都是可取的；同理，虽然每一种痛苦都是恶的，但并非每一种痛苦从本质上都应当加以躲避。

20. Good deeds act and react on the doers of them; and so do evil.

好的行为会作用与反作用于行为人身上；恶的行为同样如此。

21. Without an enemy to strive against, there is a lack of unity amongst us; therefore we have the mental necessity of evil.

如果没有敌人让我们同仇敌忾，我们就会缺乏团结；因此，我们精神上需要有邪恶的存在。

22. Without an enemy to strive against, there is a lack of unity amongst us; therefore we have the mental necessity of evil.

如果没有敌人让我们同仇敌忾，我们就会缺乏团结；因此，我们精神上需要有邪恶的存在。

23. Excess in drinking is the evil thereof.

饮酒过度由此而生祸害。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

24. The writer contrasts good with evil.

作家使美好与邪恶形成对照。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

25. Evil communications corrupt good manners.

与坏朋友打交道损害了好品行。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

26. conjure evil spirits away

以魔法驱逐邪恶的鬼魂

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

27. He put off the evil hour.

他把这个倒楣的时刻推迟下去。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

28. Now this evil in Macbeth propels him to an act absolutely evil.

现在麦克白的邪恶催使自己去干一桩绝对罪恶的行动。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

29. We cannot close our eyes to evil doers and evil deeds.

我们对坏人坏事决不能熟视无睹。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

30. Nip the evil in the bud.

坏事应当在一开始就加以根除。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

31. Software usually jumps to the erroneous conclusion that out-of-sequence input means wrong input, so it issues an evil error message box.

软件则会草率地下结论，认为违反顺序就是错误的输入，并且发起讨厌的错误消息框。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

32. However, in the object-verb world of a GUI, they aren’t inherently evil, although poorly designed modes can be terribly frustrating.

但在图形用户界面的对象——动词世界中，尽管设计不当的模态可能极端令人沮丧，但模态并不总是有害的。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓