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Playful bad behavior that causes some trouble or but usually isn't seriously harmful, like a child hiding someone's shoes as a joke. It can also describe more serious harm in older or legal use, but the everyday meaning today is the light, playful kind.
惡作劇、調皮搗蛋
組成from Old French meschief: mes- (bad) + chief (outcome, end result).
同家族的字
- mischievousthe describing word built from mischief
原始詞典資料11 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。
mischiefnoun詞源 1/ˈmɪsˌt͡ʃiːf/
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Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- Drink led to mischief.
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A playfully annoying action.
- John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.
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A nest or pack of mice or rats.
- Kirac, the leader of the rats under his charge, speaks to the major through his telepathic abilities that manifested after the alien virus infected him and his mischief of rats.
- Meet a mischief of mice that is not nibbling away at the foundation of an old building.
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archaicHarm or injury:
- She had mischief in her heart.
- Sooner or later he'll succeed in doing some serious mischief.
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archaicHarm or injury:
- It may end in her doing a great mischief to herself—and perhaps to others too.
- [R]eligion / Hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
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lawA criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
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archaicA cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
- To die like a man of honour, Sir Hargrave, you must have lived like one. You should be sure of your cause. But these pistols are too ready a mischief. Were I to meet you in your own way, Sir Hargrave, I should not expect, that a man so enraged would fire his over my head, as I should be willing to do mine over his. Life I would not put upon the perhaps involuntary twitch of a finger.
- Epimetheus was scatter-brained and a mischief to men for having taken the woman [Pandora] that Zeus had formed.
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The Devil; used as an expletive.
- What the mischief are you? and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
mischiefverb詞源 2/ˈmɪsˌt͡ʃiːf/
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obsoleteTo do a mischief to; to harm.
- "Not now, Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven. Scatter and look for them."
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obsoleteTo slander.
- And so it hath been divers times; Men mischiefing the Jews to excuse their own Wickedness: as to instance one Precedent in the time of a certain King of Portugal.
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。