spite
四级,六级,考研,GRE,1
英[spaɪt]
|美[spaɪt]
n.恶意;怨恨;恶事
vt.向…表示恶意;欺负;刁难;泄愤
日语:にもかかわらず
法语:dépit
德语:Trotz
韩语:악의
俄语:despecho
牛津词典
noun
- 恶意;怨恨
a feeling of wanting to hurt or upset sb
- I'm sure he only said it out of spite .
我相信他只是为了泄愤才那么说的。
verb
- 故意使烦恼;存心使苦恼
to deliberately annoy or upset sb
- They're playing the music so loud just to spite us.
他们把音乐放得这么响就是存心要搅扰我们。
同、反义词
同义词:
n.
malice,ill will,ill feeling,meanness,nastiness
词形变化
现在分词:spiting 过去式:spited 第三人称单数:spites 过去分词:spited
中文词源
spite 恶意,怨恨
缩写自 despite,怨恨,憎恨。
双语例句
- In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him
尽管自己心存敌意,她还是为他所吸引。
- He intends to try to leave the country, in spite of a government order cancelling his passport
尽管政府已经下令吊销他的护照,他还是试图要离开该国。
- They are both very cheerful in spite of their colds
他们俩虽然感冒了,可都兴高采烈的。
- In spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane
尽管完全与世隔绝,她依然心智健全。
- In spite of the recession, profits have galloped ahead.
尽管还处于萧条期,利润却迅猛增长。
- He survived in spite of suffering grievous injuries.
尽管身受重伤,他还是活下来了。
- I wouldn't trust them in spite of all their la-di-da manners.
尽管他们处处显得很高雅的样子,我还是不相信他们。
- Since he came to live with me, we have been subject to a campaign of spite and revenge which makes Lady Sarah appear angelic by comparison.
自从他来与我同住,我们之间便摩擦不断;相比之下,萨拉夫人倒显得一副菩萨心肠。
- Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
她从未遭遇过如此恶毒和狭隘的事情。
- In spite of the travelling and the late night, she did not feel tired.
尽管旅途劳顿,而且睡得很晚,她并没觉得累。
- There is evidence that the industry's greed means that it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
有证据表明该产业的贪婪是在作茧自缚。
- In spite of my outward calm I was very shaken
我外表看似镇定,实则吓得不轻。
- In spite of great peril, I have survived
虽然处境非常危险,我还是挺过来了。
- Josef Krips at the State Opera hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage
尽管她从未在舞台上演唱过,国家歌剧院的约瑟夫·克里普斯还是聘用了她。
- Their love of life comes in spite of, almost in defiance of, considerable hardship.
尽管面临众多的艰难困苦,他们还是几乎义无反顾地表现出了对生活的热爱。
- The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself
这番率直的话让理查德不由自主地大笑起来。
- She was deeply moved and in spite of herself could not help showing it.
她被深深地打动了,禁不住为之动容。
- I refused her a divorce, out of spite I suppose
我拒绝和她离婚,就是为了出口恶气。
- Pantelaras was giving his art collection away for nothing, to spite Marie and her husband.
潘特拉拉斯将自己的艺术藏品全都无偿捐了出去,存心要激怒玛丽和她的丈夫。
- In spite of a dismal record at school, she narrowly squeaked into design school.
尽管在学校的成绩很糟糕,她还是勉强进入了设计学校。
- They saw their bills rising steadily, in spite of superhuman efforts to save water.
尽管他们已想方设法节约用水,水费仍旧在稳步上升。
- In spite of his otherwise excellent vision, he found he was colour-blind.
尽管他视力很好,他却发现自己是个色盲。
- He was there on the stroke in spite of the rain.
尽管下雨,他还是准时到了。
- In spite of numerous defeats, they still had plenty of fight left in them.
虽然他们失败过很多次,但仍然斗志昂扬。
- In spite of his injuries, the young man stuck it out.
那小伙子受了伤,还硬挺着把活干完。
- In spite of the long trip, Jody arrived looking as if she had come out of a bandbox.
虽然经过长途旅行,乔迪到达的时候仍然显得神采奕奕。
- In spite of the fog the crew can distinguish the coastline fairly well.
虽然有雾,船员们仍能相当清楚地识别出那是岸线。
- In spite of all your talk you never seem to come to the point.
你虽然说了那么多话,但好像一直没贴题。
- In spite of one or two minor mishaps everything was going swimmingly.
尽管遇到了一两件小小的不幸,一切都进行得很顺利。
- In spite of careful checking, there are still omissions.
饶这么细心核对,还是有遗漏。
语源
Middle English: shortening of Old French despitcontempt, despitershow contempt for