- 1故意作對的、悖理的、反常的（不要譯成「變態」——那是 pervert / perv）
Perverse describes someone who behaves in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what people want, on purpose. If everyone says turn left and you turn right just to push back, that is perverse. It can also describe a feeling or a result that goes against what seems right or sensible: a perverse pride in failing, a rule with perverse effects that hurt the people it was meant to help. The word is fairly formal. Though actually, in this meaning it is not a sex word — that mix-up comes from nearby words like pervert and . Older books sometimes let perverse drift toward “morally twisted,” but the sense you will meet first is , unreasonably contrary.
From the word’s history
From Latin perversum 'thoroughly turned', from per- + vertere 'to turn'.
源自拉丁文 perversum「徹底轉向」，字根 vertere「轉」。
組成From Middle English perverse, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), the past form of pervertere: per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).
同家族的字
- pervertfrom the same Latin verb pervertere, “to turn the wrong way”
- perversitythe noun for perverse behaviour
原始詞典資料7 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。
perverseadj/pɚˈvɝs/
- 1
Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
- Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.
- But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense.
- 2
Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
- Looking at Barbara one would have considerable difficulty detecting a perverse side to her nature. Her expression was demure, shy, and apprehensive. But she recognized the demonic aspect of her personality and admitted it. I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different.
- 3
Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
- 4
Wayward; vexing; contrary.
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
- Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […].
- 5
lawIgnoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
perversenoun/pɚˈvɝs/
- 1
archaicgeometrymathematicssciencesA chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.
- If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable. The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other.
perverseverb/pɚˈvɝs/
- 1
archaicTo pervert.
- This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed.
- And though impartial history now and then cast the alow (halo) of a martyr over an unsuccessful patriot's grave; yet even that was not always sure; tyrants often perversed history, sullied by adulation or by fear; — but whetever that last verdict might have been; for him who dared to struggle against despotism, when he struggled in vain, there was no honor on earth; victorious tyranny marked the front of virtue with the brand of a criminal.
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