喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture someone who feels wronged or left out, and instead of getting something for themselves, they act only so the other person has a worse day — the small, sour move that costs you nothing and gains you nothing. That taste of 'I just want you to feel it too' is what sits at the centre of the word.

可以想成：一個人覺得自己被虧待了、或看別人過得比自己好，心裡浮出一股酸酸的火。他做的事不是為了替自己爭到什麼，純粹就…更多收起可以想成：一個人覺得自己被虧待了、或看別人過得比自己好，心裡浮出一股酸酸的火。他做的事不是為了替自己爭到什麼，純粹就是要對方難受一下——鄰居吵架時故意把樹砍掉、把東西藏起來那種小動作。spite 的中心就是這股「我沒好處，但我要你不好過」的心情，動詞用法只是把這股心情做出來。

From the picture

in spite of 這組固定說法

這一組只活在 in spite of 這個片語裡，意思是「儘管」。它跟上面那股怨氣的關聯，在現代英文裡已經幾乎感覺不到了；與其硬掰一個比喻，不如把它當成一個獨立的連接用法直接記起來。

in spite of · noun · B1

used in the phrase in spite of: even though something is true or happens, it does not stop another thing.

儘管；不顧

Also in this word

malice · noun · B2

a feeling of wanting to upset someone, often because you feel jealous or treated unfairly.

惡意；怨恨

spite someone · verb · B2

to do something on purpose to annoy or upset someone.

故意刁難；故意惹惱

原始詞典資料6 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。

spitenoun詞源 1/spaɪt/

  • 1

    Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice.

    • He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
    • They did it just for spite.
  • 2

    obsoleteVexation; chagrin; mortification.

    • "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."

spiteverb詞源 1/spaɪt/

  • 1

    To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.

    • She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo be angry at; to hate.

    • The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
  • 3

    To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

    • But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time of Darius, Father of Xerxes, who with the reſt of the Perſians, ſpighted at the Magi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son of Cyrus after the Death of Cambyſes,) when he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the old Aſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe of Perſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.

spiteprep詞源 2/spaɪt/

  • 1

    Notwithstanding; despite.

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。