perversity
英 [pə'vɜːsɪtɪ]
美
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.
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).
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