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bad egg

坏蛋,坏鸡蛋,倒霉蛋,糟糕的鸡蛋

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is bad, dishonest, or unreliable; a good-for-nothing: a bad egg who had served several years in prison.

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Examples

  • This an unnervingly compassionate portrait of a truly bad egg.

  • We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

  • I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.

  • Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

  • They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.

  • Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

  • Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.

  • The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.

  • The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.

  • Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.

  • Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.