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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.
Perverse describes someone who behaves in an unreasonable wayPerverse用來形容一個人用不合理的方式行動, especially by doing the opposite of what people want, on purpose尤其是故意做大家希望的事的相反。If everyone says turn left and you turn right just to push back如果大家都說要左轉你卻故意右轉只是為了唱反調, that is perverse那就是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.
It can also describe a feeling or a result that goes against what seems right or sensible它也可以形容一種違背常理或不合理的感覺或結果: a perverse pride in failing像是以失敗為榮的反常驕傲, a rule with perverse effects that hurt the people it was meant to help或是一項規定造成了反效果反而傷害了原本要幫助的人。
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 .
The word is fairly formal這個字算是相當正式的用字。Though actually不過, in this meaning it is not a sex word在這個意思下它不是跟性有關的字 — that mix-up comes from nearby words like pervert and perv那個誤會是來自pervert和perv這些長得很像的字。
Older books sometimes let perverse drift toward “morally twisted,” but the sense you will meet first is , unreasonably contrary.
Older books sometimes let perverse drift toward "morally twisted,"比較舊的書有時候會讓perverse偏向「道德扭曲」的意思 but the sense you will meet first is stubbornly, unreasonably contrary但你最先會遇到的意思是固執地、不合理地唱反調。
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，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。
perverseadj/pɚˈvɝs/
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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.
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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.
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Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
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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 […].
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lawIgnoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
perversenoun/pɚˈvɝs/
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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/
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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.
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。