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词根:malefic
adj.malefic 有害的;邪恶的
malfeasant 不法行为的;行为不正的
n.malfeasance 渎职,违法行为;不正当,坏事
maleficence 罪行;恶毒
malfeasant 贪官污吏;犯罪者
adjective
causing harm or evil.The special security branch of the military was a maleficent force responsible for numerous murders and incidents of torture.
"造成伤害或恶意行为或效果的,恶意的,罪恶的",来自1670年代的拉丁语 maleficent-, 改编自 maleficus "邪恶的,恶毒的,犯罪的",由 male "不好的"(见 mal-)和 -ficus "制造,做"组成,来自 facere "制造,做"的组合形式(来自 PIE 词根 *dhe- "放置,放置")。
back-formation from maleficence
The first known use of maleficent was in 1678
1 Maleficent and her raven watch the scene with deep satisfaction.
莫丽菲森和她的黑乌鸦满意的看着这一幕。
2 The waters cover the earth, and all maleficent beings are drowned.
3 Hiddleston, known to Marvel fans as the brooding, maleficent Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies, stepped into the Adam role when Michael Fassbender stepped out.
4 "The motives may be beneficent, but the effects are maleficent," he says.
5 But Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark.
6 We don’t see Maleficent before she becomes, well, maleficent.
7 But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth.
8 But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven, to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth.
9 The Mexica believed the black sun was carried by the god of the underworld, and was the maleficent herald of death, though not death as finality.
10 Each had seemed to her the triumph of a just cause over a baleful combination of circumstance, the brilliant freeing of truth and innocence from entangling error and maleficent scheming.
11 Bad magic may be overcome by good magic, and a deity, hostile and maleficent under certain circumstances, may be placated by offerings.
12 The Jingo, the military adventurer, the fomentor of trouble, are seen for what they are—not as patriots, but as representing exceedingly mischievous and maleficent forces.
13 Other records of maleficent deities in serpent shape were current, and monkeys and dragons inspired similar terror.
14 Since 2010, Disney has released three live-action adaptations of formerly animated movies: Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, and Cinderella.
2010年以来,迪士尼连续推出了三部从之前的动画电影改编的真人电影:《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、《沉睡恶魔》以及《灰姑娘》。
15 He saw Christianity as Tacitus described it—“a maleficent superstition.”
16 If anything reminded him of the moon, however, then it could be expected to be maleficent in influence.
17 This fate may be beneficent or maleficent, a guardian angel or a possessive fiend; or it may, in appearance at least, combine both functions.
18 Mr. Page, rocking a Leon Redbone look and rumble, makes an electrifyingly maleficent Hades, even without playing up the Trumpian parallels that have overtaken the material.
19 An indefinable presentiment of evil was upon him; the air was charged with some awful and maleficent influence, of which the convulsion of nature seemed a fit harbinger.
20 The popular tales of all Europe would, meanwhile, tend to support the church, in viewing them as maleficent genii.
1 恶毒
evil malicious vicious twisted sinister malignant nefarious virulent devilish bitchy acrimonious felonious malefic ill-natured cankered viperish cattish roughshod venom malignancy virulence malevolence
3 邪恶的
black dark evil foul wicked abandoned vicious sinful immoral Satanic unclean ill unholy ungodly diabolical villainous impious unrighteous miscreant felonious reprobate baleful iniquitous unregenerate blackguard pestiferous squint-eyed awry god ugly grim sinister naughty malignant satanic babylonian oblique perverse lewd perverted malign godless malefic graceless thrawn god-forsaken unblessed peccant
4 有害的
bad harmful unwanted destructive damaging detrimental poisonous hurtful mischievous noxious pernicious malign deleterious injurious prejudicial unwholesome wack inimical baleful noisome pestilent pestiferous mephitic miasmal nocuous contagious ill scathing ruinous pestilential malefic black evil toxic adverse taking grievous unfavourable unhealthy sinister malignant wrongful disadvantageous baneful nocent wrongous cross deadly minus hazardous wicked venomous aversive invidious
5 犯罪
criminal guilty fall err trespass peccant felonious delict crime offence guilt delinquency sin offend nocent criminous criminally peccancy commitment trick wrongdoing perpetrate criminality culpa misfeasance lapse civil occasion mea culpa delinquent job rap misdeed
6 有害
bad harmful unwanted destructive damaging detrimental poisonous hurtful mischievous noxious pernicious malign deleterious injurious prejudicial unwholesome wack inimical baleful noisome pestilent pestiferous mephitic miasmal nocuous ill balefully hurtfully perniciously banefully balefulness maleficence contagious scathing ruinous pestilential evil vice malefic black toxic adverse taking grievous unfavourable disutility disagree unhealthy sinister malignant wrongful disadvantageous baneful nocent badly disagreement hurt wrongous cross deadly minus hazardous wicked venomous aversive invidious detrimentally malignancy
7 做坏事的
9 作恶的
10 邪恶
black dark evil foul wicked abandoned vicious sinful immoral Satanic unclean ill unholy ungodly diabolical villainous impious unrighteous miscreant felonious reprobate baleful iniquitous unregenerate blackguard pestiferous squint-eyed awry wrong harm vice bale iniquity immorality depravity villainy perversity turpitude devilry harden god ugly grim sinister naughty malignant satanic babylonian oblique perverse lewd perverted malign godless malefic graceless thrawn god-forsaken unblessed peccant blackly iniquitousness nigritude naught belial improbity pravity
11 做坏事