| 单词 | bad |
| 释义 | bad I. archaic past of bid or of bide II. 1. a. < a bad car > < a bad complexion > < a bad book > < a bad repair job > b. < made a bad impression on the examiners > < had bad reports about his conduct > < youthful escapades gave him a bad name > : marked by unfavorable or unfortunate events, trends, or occurences < a bad year for Rome — Robert Graves > : contrary to expectations or hopes : inauspicious < the messenger brought bad news > < regard the present as a bad time to buy durable consumer goods — S.H.Slichter > c. < meat has gone bad > d. < a farmhouse in a bad state > 2. a. < a thoroughly bad man, without a trace of feeling or conscience > < a bad book, sowing harmful deluding ideas > : immoral < gossip had it that she was a bad girl > b. < a bad child > 3. a. < a bad plan > < a bad light to read by > b. < a bad buy > < a bad investment > < a bad shot > : displaying or revealing poor judgment or lack of skill < a wild golf shot caused by bad timing on the down stroke > 4. a. (1) < a bad smell > < a bad taste > (2) < spent a few bad minutes waiting for the jury's decision > b. of language < scolded the boy for using bad language > 5. a. < too close reading is often bad for the eyes > < a climate bad for the health > b. < a bad cold > < a bad shock > c. < a bad train wreck > < a bad forest fire > d. < as languages go, I'd say Japanese isn't bad — Bernard Bloch > < we went up the Elena Glacier … and found it as bad as we had feared — D.L.Busk > 6. < bad grammar > < conduct in the worst taste > 7. a. < bad with fever > < the cold made him feel generally bad > b. < bad teeth > < a bad constitution > 8. a. < feel bad at the death of a friend > b. < feel bad about slighting a friend > c. of a person's character or disposition < everybody was in a bad humor except the chief — Dashiell Hammett > 9. a. < a bad claim > b. of a debt c. of a check d. in games < a bad tennis shot falling several feet outside the base line > Synonyms: < Svengali walking up and down the earth seeking whom he might cheat, betray, exploit, borrow money from, make brutal fun of, bully if he dared, cringe to if he must — man, woman, child, or dog — was about as bad as they make 'em — George du Maurier > < that bad man in one of his raving outbursts threatened us with a terrifying increase in the numbers and activities of his U-boats … — Sir Winston Churchill > < she often stole little foods from the table and … ate them at odd hours of the night, with the pleased expression of a bad child — Sinclair Lewis > ill may imply vice or malevolence < it was ill counsel had misled the girl — Alfred Tennyson > < the far results of an ill deed involve the innocent with the guilty — H.O.Taylor > evil often adds the sinister to the reprehensible < who attended him as his shadow and his evil genius — a confidential colleague who betrayed his confidence, mocked his projects, derided his authority — J.L.Motley > < the evil counselors who … abused his youth — J.R.Green > < an evil and treacherous folk, and they lied and murdered for gold — William Morris > wicked usually implies severe moral reprehensibility < the wicked sorcerers who have done people to death by their charms — J.G.Frazer > It may also suggest malevolence or malice < this injury … has rankled in his wicked, scheming brain, and all his life he has longed for vengeance — A. Conan Doyle > naughty generally applies to trivial misbehavior of children < Charles never was a naughty boy. He never robbed birds' nests, or smoked behind the barn, or played marbles on Sunday — Margaret Deland > Sometimes it suggests reprehensibility in a light and playful way < can't I be a naughty little thing? — J.M.Cain > < the still popular, and still naughty, and perpetually profane Decameron — Gilbert Highet > • - in a bad way - too bad III. 1. a. < the bad or good I say of myself I say of them — Walt Whitman > b. < the good in him was at constant variance with the bad > 2. < from bad to worse > < he went to the bad early in life > • - in bad IV. 1. < want something bad enough to fight for it > < the man was not doing so bad despite handicaps > < the Americans didn't know how bad off they were until daylight — E.J.Kahn > 2. substandard < in the fight he was roughed up bad and ended in the hospital > < mess up a plan real bad > < being bad sick — James Jones > < put his fist through a window and cut it up bad > V. slang 1. < one of the baddest songwriters to be found anywhere — Black Collegian > 2. |
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