vicious

• adj. 恶毒的；恶意的；堕落的；有错误的；品性不端的；剧烈的
• n. (Vicious)人名；(英)维舍斯

来自vice,罪行，邪恶，引申词义恶性的。比较virtuous circle.

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;

"a barbarous crime"

"brutal beatings"

"cruel tortures"

"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"

"a savage slap"

"vicious kicks"

2. having the nature of vice

3. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful;

"a malevolent lie"

"poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway

"venomous criticism"

"vicious gossip"

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.

Perlow calls this vicious cycle the cycle of responsiveness: Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

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Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air, which increases temperatures, starting the whole vicious cycle all over again.

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Perlow calls this vicious cycle the "cycle of responsiveness": Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

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a vicious attack

猛烈的攻击

牛津词典

a vicious criminal

凶残的罪犯

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She has a vicious temper.

她性情暴虐。

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a vicious dog

恶犬

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She wrote me a vicious letter.

她给我写了一封严厉的信。

牛津词典

a vicious headache

剧烈的头痛

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a vicious spiral of rising prices

物价的恶性螺旋形上涨

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[不可数名词]Police were shocked by the viciousness of the assault.

警方对这一攻击的残忍感到震惊。

牛津词典

He was a cruel and vicious man...

他是一个残忍凶狠的男人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He suffered a vicious attack by a gang of white youths...

他遭到一帮白人青年的残暴袭击。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.

这是对一个年轻人品格蓄意的、卑鄙的、恶毒的攻击。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...her shrewish temperament and vicious tongue.

她暴躁的性格和恶毒的言语

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The vicious cycle of life and death is an everyday event in the wild.

生存和死亡的恶性循环是荒野里日常之事.

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He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.

他朝着那只狗狠狠地打了一棍子.

《简明英汉词典》

Deflation are long bone, and a vicious inflation is a toothless tiger.

通缩是化骨龙, 恶性通胀则是无牙老虎.

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The drunkard led a vicious life.

这个醉汉过着堕落的生活.

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He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, outwardly kind but inwardly vicious!

他是个披着羊皮的狼, 外貌仁慈,内心狠毒!

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I was afraid of this hatred, vicious sense of suffocating weight.

我害怕这种被仇恨 、 恶毒压得透不过气来的感觉.

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Cunning and vicious people often come to the shop to provoke unwarranted trouble.

狡猾恶毒的人常来这家店招惹无端的麻烦.

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So the image of the US benefited from being perceived as less vicious than the Brits.

因此,美国的形象得益于美国人在中国人眼里不像英国人那样恶毒.

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Not that she minded the labor nor the trips through the vicious weather.

她倒不是担心工作的艰苦或是气候恶劣路途难走.

辞典例句

He took a vicious cut at the ball.

在棒球比赛中他猛力地击中了球.

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