| 单词 | villain |
| 释义 | villain (vɪlən ) Word forms: villains 1. countable noun A villain is someone who deliberately harms other people or breaks the law in order to get what he or she wants. 2. countable noun The villain in a novel, film, or play is the main bad character. 3. the villain of the piece phrase [villain inflects] If you say that someone is the villain of the piece, you are saying in a slightly humorous way that they are seen by some people as the cause of all the trouble in a particular situation. If Mr Denny is indeed the villain of the piece, as the police claim he is, he should have been more carefully watched. Idioms: the villain of the piece [British] the person who is responsible for all the trouble or all the problems in a situation If he is indeed the villain of the piece, as the police claim he is, he should have been more carefully watched. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: chief villain But airlines find themselves increasingly painted as the chief villains in raising the world's temperature. Times, Sunday Times Institutional money managers are the chief villains. Times, Sunday Times After much fighting and danger, they retake the house, and are about to flee to safety when the chief villains return and recapture them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 恶棍 Japanese: 悪党 |
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