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Malfeasance is illegal or dishonest activity, especially by someone who holds a job with power — an official, a company officer, a person trusted to act for others.
MalfeasanceMalfeasance（瀆職） is illegal or dishonest activity是違法或不誠實的行為 especially by someone who holds a job with power尤其是有職權的人做的 an official, a company officer, a person trusted to act for others像是官員、公司高層，或受託代表別人行事的人
It is a lawyers' and newspapers' word. You will see it in stories about government, banks, and public money. Everyday English might say , or they broke the law in office.
It is a lawyers' and newspapers' word這是律師和新聞會用的詞 You will see it你會在 in stories about government, banks, and public money關於政府、銀行，和公款的新聞裡看到它 Everyday English日常英文 might say wrongdoing可能會說wrongdoing or they broke the law in office或說他們在任內違法
Though actually, in careful legal talk it sits next to two sister words: misfeasance (doing a lawful job in a wrong way) and nonfeasance (not doing a job you should have done). Malfeasance is the one that means doing something you had no right to do at all. Students do not need those sisters at first, but if you meet the word in a contract or a headline, that is where it lives.
Though actually不過其實 in careful legal talk在嚴謹的法律用語裡 it sits next to two sister words它旁邊還有兩個近親詞 misfeasance (doing a lawful job in a wrong way)misfeasance（把合法的工作做錯的方式） and nonfeasance (not doing a job you should have done)還有nonfeasance（該做的事沒去做） MalfeasanceMalfeasance is the one that means是指 doing something you had no right to do at all做了根本沒有權力做的事 Students do not need those sisters at first學生一開始不用管這兩個近親詞 but if you meet the word in a contract or a headline但如果你在合約或新聞標題裡遇到這個詞 that is where it lives那就是它出現的地方
It is not a word for a child stealing sweets; it is for using a role in a bad, often illegal, way.
It is not a word for a child stealing sweets它不是用來說小孩偷糖果的詞 it is for using a role in a bad, often illegal, way而是講利用職位做壞事，通常是違法的方式
組成From Old French malfaisance, from malfaire (to do evil), from Latin malefaciō: male (evilly) + faciō (to do, make). So “wrongdoing” — doing what you should not.
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- malefactorsame Latin roots, but this is the person; malfeasance is the act
- misfeasancelegal sister word: doing a lawful job badly or in the wrong way
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。
malfeasancenoun/ˌmælˈfiːzəns/
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Wrongdoing.
- For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
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lawMisconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
- By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
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。