• adj. 惡毒的；惡意的；墮落的；有錯(cuò)誤的；品性不端的；劇烈的
• n. (Vicious)人名；(英)維舍斯

來(lái)自vice,罪行，邪惡，引申詞義惡性的。比較virtuous circle.

vicious (adj.)

late 14c., "unwholesome, impure, of the nature of vice, wicked, corrupting, pernicious, harmful;" of a text, "erroneous, corrupt," from Anglo-French vicious, Old French vicios "wicked, cunning, underhand; defective, illegal" (Modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiosus (Medieval Latin vicious) "faulty, full of faults, defective, corrupt; wicked, depraved," from vitium "fault" (see vice (n.1)).

Meaning "inclined to be savage or dangerous" is first recorded 1711 (originally of animals, especially horses); that of "full of spite, bitter, severe" is from 1825. In law, "marred by some inherent fault" (late 14c.), hence also this sense in logic (c. 1600), as in vicious circle in reasoning (c. 1792, Latin circulus vitiosus), which was given a general sense of "a situation in which action and reaction intensify one another" by 1839. Related: Viciously (mid-14c., "sinfully"); viciousness.

1. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.

制造商之間的惡性價(jià)格戰(zhàn)已將利潤(rùn)削減到了最低。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. That second night, Sid Vicious chucked a bottle at the stage.

第二天晚上，席德·維瑟斯朝舞臺(tái)上扔了個(gè)瓶子。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. He was a vicious gossip.

他總是喜歡說(shuō)別人的壞話。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. She was furtive and vicious by temperament.

她本來(lái)做事就偷偷摸摸，心腸狠毒。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. a vicious slander on the company's good name

對(duì)那家公司良好聲譽(yù)的惡意誹謗

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》