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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.

From the word’s history

From Old French meschief, from meschever 'to bring to grief': mes- 'badly' + chever 'happen'.

源自古法文 meschief，由 mes-「不好」加 chever「發生」。

Wiktionary

組成from Old French meschief: mes- (bad) + chief (outcome, end result).

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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.

    • Drink led to mischief.
  • 2

    A playfully annoying action.

    • John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.
  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    archaicHarm or injury:

    • She had mischief in her heart.
    • Sooner or later he'll succeed in doing some serious mischief.
  • 5

    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.
  • 6

    lawA criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.

  • 7

    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.
  • 8

    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
  • 9

    Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.

mischiefverb詞源 2/ˈmɪsˌt͡ʃiːf/

  • 1

    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."
  • 2

    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.

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