perversity
英 [pə'vɜːsɪtɪ]
美 [pə'vɜːsɪtɪ]
perversity 助记提示
1、per- "through" 在这里引申为：由好的一方面through到不好的一方面，=> away；同类单词：pervert, perjury.
2、per- + vers- + -e.
3、literally "turn sb or sth through to the wrong way". => turned away from what is right, wrong.
4、该词来源于pervert的拉丁语对应词的过去分词。由此取形容词词性并引申出如今的含义。
5. per- + vers- + -ity.
perversity 英文词源
- perversity (n.)
- 1520s, from Middle French perversité "depravity, degeneracy" (12c.), from Latin perversitatem (nominative perversitas) "forwardness, untowardness," from perversus (see perverse).
perversity 双语例句
1. It would be wrong to continue out of perversity. 为了故意作对而继续这样做是不对的。 来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
- 她嫁给他纯粹是任性.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.
- 在我们最出色的人身上都有任性的一面.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy.
- 倾慕再加上任性便不难作出决定了.
来自辞典例句
- 5. He did it out of slick perversity.
- 他全然是出于不合情理的想法做了这件事的.
来自辞典例句