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villain

/vil-uhn/US // ˈvɪl ən //UK // (ˈvɪlən) //

小人,恶棍,恶人,小人儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
    • : a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
    • : a person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad: Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.
    • : villein.

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Examples

  • To begin with, there’s Ursula, a flamboyantly campy villain who lives to be over the top.

  • He has avoided labeling any actual villains he would blame for San Diego’s problems.

  • Instead, Halliburton claims, health administrators treated him like a villain for calling.

  • For years, publishers have singled out the duopoly — Google and Facebook — as the industry’s mega villain characters, hoovering up the majority of the digital advertising pie and leaving behind just the crumbs for everyone else to play with.

  • China’s accelerating AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention, but it is unhelpful to reduce all the many developments into a simplistic narrative about China as a threat or a villain.

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • When I play a villain, I always try to make sure they believe what they are doing is right.

  • I say a lot that in the story of racism in America nobody wants to be the villain.

  • Bill Cosby, it seems, can only be seen in two registers: sainted family man of a much-loved sitcom, or fallen, tarnished villain.

  • And if there was a villain on whom to pin this whole struggle—it would be our inner demons.

  • "So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.

  • The villain Longcluse, and the whole fabric of his machinations, may be dashed in pieces by a word.

  • "You infernal villain, if you don't surrender, I'll blow your brains out," hissed his lordship.

  • That black-hearted villain, Hidayut Khan, wanted more than his share of plunder on many occasions, and was refused it.

  • But Sir G. Downing would not be answered so: though all the world takes notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his pains.