词汇 | spiting |
释义 | spiting present participle ofspite spite verb[ T ] uk /spaɪt/ us /spaɪt/ to intentionally annoy, upset, or hurt someone: 刁难;存心使苦恼;故意伤害 I almost think he died without making a will just to spite his family.我都有些认为他死前不立遗嘱就是存心要为难他的家人。 Synonyms hurt wound(UPSET) Treating people or animals badly a raw dealidiom abuser anti-harassment at the hands of someoneidiom batten batten on someone hit someone where it hurtsidiom ill-treat ill-treatment ill-used impose prey prey on something put someone through something put upon tyranny uncared for use victimization victimize Examples of spitingspiting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, he would be spiting himself and his successors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it likely that they will place orders for locomotives and rolling stock in the dearest markets simply for the purpose of spiting private firms? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we are not spiting our faces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Still, they remained comrades of some sort and still delight in spiting and belitting each other. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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