vicious

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反義詞

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比較級:?more vicious;最高級:?most vicious;副詞:?viciously;名詞:?viciousness;

1. vice => vicious.

vicious 惡性的

來自vice,罪行，邪惡，引申詞義惡性的。比較virtuous circle.

vicious (adj.): late 14c., "unwholesome, impure, of the nature of vice, wicked, corrupting, pernicious, harmful;" of a text, "erroneous, corrupt," from Anglo-French vicious, Old French vicios "wicked, cunning, underhand; defective, illegal" (Modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiosus (Medieval Latin vicious) "faulty, full of faults, defective, corrupt; wicked, depraved," from vitium "fault" (see vice (n.1)).

Meaning "inclined to be savage or dangerous" is first recorded 1711 (originally of animals, especially horses); that of "full of spite, bitter, severe" is from 1825. In law, "marred by some inherent fault" (late 14c.), hence also this sense in logic (c. 1600), as in vicious circle in reasoning (c. 1792, Latin circulus vitiosus), which was given a general sense of "a situation in which action and reaction intensify one another" by 1839. Related: Viciously (mid-14c., "sinfully"); viciousness.

1. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.: 制造商之間的惡性價格戰(zhàn)已將利潤削減到了最低。

2. That second night, Sid Vicious chucked a bottle at the stage.: 第二天晚上，席德·維瑟斯朝舞臺上扔了個瓶子。