核心畫面

Picture something foul — spoiled food, a rotten smell, something dirty — that makes you your nose and pull back. At heart 'nasty' is that quality of being unpleasant enough to repel you; from a bad smell it stretches out to bad experiences, bad-hearted people, and injuries bad enough to hurt.

比較像一團讓你皺眉、想後退的髒東西——餿掉的食物、難聞的味道。nasty 骨子裡就是這種「討厭到讓人反感、想閃開」的更多收起比較像一團讓你皺眉、想後退的髒東西——餿掉的食物、難聞的味道。nasty 骨子裡就是這種「討厭到讓人反感、想閃開」的感覺;從難聞的氣味,一路延伸到難受的經歷、壞心眼的人,還有嚴重到會傷人的傷。

Three branches

難聞·難受

這一支就是核心本身:從感官上的反感,延伸到經歷上的難受。

nasty (unpleasant to the senses) · adjective · B1

Looking, smelling, or tasting bad and unpleasant.

難聞的;難吃的

惡毒·刻薄

把「令人反感」用到人的言行和心地上——一個人壞得讓你反感。

nasty (unkind, hurtful) · adjective · B1

Very unkind and hurtful — the kind of words or behaviour that are meant to upset someone.

惡毒的;刻薄的

嚴重·危險

當「糟」糟到會實際傷到你,nasty 就帶上「嚴重、危險」的分量。

nasty (serious injury) · adjective · B1

Serious and painful — used for a cut, injury, or illness that is bad.

嚴重的;厲害的

原始詞典資料12 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。

Nastyname

  • 1

    A hamlet in Great Munden parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3524).

nastyadj/ˈnaː.sti/

  • 1

    Dirty, filthy.

    • In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
    • I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty.
  • 2

    Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).

    • Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.
  • 3

    Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.

    • ‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
  • 4

    Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.

    • He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
    • We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
  • 5

    Spiteful, unkind.

    • She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."
  • 6

    Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.

    • There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.
  • 7

    Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).

    • Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.
  • 8

    slangFormidable, terrific; wicked.

    • "Well," she grinned, looking hot and sexy. "They say you doing some real nasty shit in the NBA, but on the mic you a little too competitive. They say you a gaming niggah who likes to keep up all kinds of go-to-war gangsta friction between rappers. That shit must work for you though, huh? You stickin' all over the charts when other artists are failin' off. They rotating your cuts on the radio like mad too."

nastynoun/ˈnaː.sti/

  • 1

    informalSomething nasty.

    • Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.
    • This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.
  • 2

    slangSexual intercourse.

  • 3

    A video nasty.

    • In this way, it is hoped that the nasties will be dealt with, and the remainder regularized.
    • Jones evokes the nasties discursively to brand the Splat Pack as 'authentic outlaws'.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。