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If someone is bloody-minded, they make life difficult for other people on purpose. They will not help, they will not agree, and they seem set on being awkward. It is a British way of talking, a little old-fashioned, and a bit rude, though milder than it looks on the page. American speakers almost never use it like this. Though actually, the word used to mean something harsher: cruel, ready to hurt. That older sense is rare now. A British person who calls you bloody-minded today is saying you will not cooperate, not that you want blood.
故意刁難的、存心作對的(英式)
組成bloody + minded(帶著某種心思)。較舊的意思大概是「心裡想著傷害」;現在英國人口中多半是「存心不配合」。
同家族的字
- mindedhaving a certain kind of mind
- like-mindedshares the -minded piece
- bloody-mindednessthe noun built from this adjective
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bloody-mindedadj
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Eager for or wanting blood; on the verge of becoming violent.
- He thin swore what he wouldn't do to him iv he didn't show him whare his money was. Tom luked so wicked, an' so bloody-minded, that the little man was quite frightened. "So," sez he, "come along wid me a couple o' fields aff, an' I'll show ye a crock o' gould."
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informalObstinate; stubborn.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。