| 词汇 | wickedness |
| 释义 | wickedness noun[ U ] uk /ˈwɪk.ɪd.nəs/ us /ˈwɪk.ɪd.nəs/ the fact of being morally very wrong or bad: 坏，邪恶 They would be punished for their wickedness.他们会因为自己的邪恶受到惩罚的。 Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical tawdry trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably Examples of wickednesswickedness Whatever wickedness is supposedly being punished in a particular case, there will be perpetrators of the same wickedness who escape punishment. These women infringed cultural norms, played out their ' wickedness ' and exhibited considerable mobility in their search for more meaningful existences. This welcome collection of essays uses the idea of ' wickedness ' as an analytical category to expose processes of political, economic and social construction and change. The focus is not on ' wicked behaviour ' (whatever that might be) but on ascriptions of ' wickedness ', and specifically claims about ' wicked ' behaviour by women. Ascriptions of female wickedness simultaneously reflect male strategies for controlling women and widespread anxiety about social transformation. In the novels, a planter not only protected his dependants from wicked influences, he regulated those who committed the wickedness. If ' wickedness ' meant a greater openness to divorce, then men appeared as wicked as women. It was horror at such wickedness that first checked him, and brought him back to the combat. And perhaps that is but one more illustration of how misleading such imaginative accounts of wickedness can be. Our emotional responsiveness to the world - the fact that we are angered by wickedness, saddened by suffering - seems an essential part of our human nature. Indeed, some of these essays are as much, or more, about ascriptions of inadequacy in men than of wickedness in women. They inevitably encourage us to view wickedness from the outside, so to speak, or from the perspective of fear rather than that of love. 44. This article is about the inevitability of the divorce, rather than the personal weaknesses and wickedness of the parties. She hears them before she sees them and greets the sound of their "wickedness" with a tone that has the power to subdue and manipulate their bodies. The need for coordination, and hence the need for law and legal authority to facilitate such coordination, is not merely an unfortunate consequence of human ineptitude and wickedness. 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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