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/ˈvɪʃəs/
Vicious describes something cruel, violent, and meant to hurt — like a vicious attack or a vicious dog. It's also used in the phrase 'vicious circle' (or 'vicious cycle'), which means a bad situation where one problem causes another problem, which then makes the first one worse, over and over.
兇惡的、殘暴的；vicious circle 惡性循環
同家族的字
- vicevicious comes from the same root meaning a fault or bad habit
原始詞典資料4 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。
Viciousname
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A surname.
viciousadj/ˈvɪʃəs/
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Violent, destructive and cruel.
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Savage and aggressive.
- He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
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archaicPertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
- We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
- Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof
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。