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Devilment is wild or naughty behaviour that causes trouble — though actually it is usually more playful than truly evil. People use it for mischief: hiding things, teasing, stirring others up just for the fun of it. You might do something “out of devilment,” meaning you did it to be cheeky, not because you had a serious plan. It is not a playground word for small children; you meet it more in stories, newspapers, and slightly old-fashioned talk. A parent might sigh about a child’s devilment and still be smiling. The “devil” inside the word makes it sound a bit wicked, but speakers often say it with a wink. Next to everyday words like trouble or mischief, devilment feels a little , though people still understand it at once.
搗蛋、惡作劇（偏頑皮、不是真正作惡）
原始詞典資料5 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。
devilmentnoun/ˈdɛv(ɪ)lm(ə)nt/
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Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- He lived so long, and in his worldly matters prospered so much, there was so little sign of devilment in the accomplishment of his wishes, and the increase of his prosperity, that Simon, at the end of six years, began to doubt whether he had made any such bargain at all, as that which we have described at the commencement of this history.
- It was just so with my Joe—always full of his devilment, and up to every kind of mischief, but he was just as unselfish and kind as he could be—and laws bless me, to think I went and whipped him for taking that cream, never once recollecting that I throwed it out myself because it was sour, and I never to see him again in this world, never, never, never, poor abused boy!
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A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
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Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- Ah, why the divil, Puddock, do you keep them ould women's charrums and divilments, about you—you'll be the death of some one yet, so you will.
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Something cleverly constructed.
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A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
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。