| 单词 | villain |
| 释义 | vil·lain I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. < the villain of the Government's case … is the paper's advertising director — Time > < ozone, a form of oxygen, has been previously reported as a chief and elusive villain in the … smog problem — New York Times > Synonyms: < are not made villains by the commission of a crime, but were villains before they committed it — John Ruskin > scoundrel may suggest blended worthlessness, meanness, and unscrupulousness < a crew of pirates … will elect a boatswain to order them about and a captain to lead them and navigate the ship, though the one may be the most insufferable bully and the other the most tyrannical scoundrel on board — G.B.Shaw > blackguard may suggest inveterate depravity; sometimes it is used as the antithesis of gentleman < you must employ either blackguards or gentlemen, or, best of all, blackguards commanded by gentlemen, to do butcher's work with efficiency and dispatch — Rudyard Kipling > knave may suggest sly trickery and deceit < cheating knaves gathered at the taverns > < more fool than knave > rascal may suggest base dishonesty < your true rascal is today your only true citizen of the world. He plunders all nations without pride in one or prejudice against another — Eric Linklater > rogue may suggest the blended roughness and wiliness of a vagabond < sturdy rogues taking to the roads as highwaymen > scamp may describe one given to artful cheating, clever robbery, or interesting escapades < a scamp who had pinched pennies out of the teacups of the poor by various shenanigans, who was distributing his largess to divert attention from his rascality — W.A.White > rapscallion may refer to an ill-dressed rogue or rascal rarely successful < the rapscallions of the river, the Black Gangs — Meridel Le Sueur > miscreant may refer to a singularly conscienceless villain < a sordid glamour about imprisonment which makes the young miscreant feel important; he has the inverted satisfaction of being treated like a grown-up gangster — Times Literary Supplement > II. a. b. |
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