参考词典中sinister的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的
词形变化
- 名 词:sin'is·ter·ness副 词:sin'is·ter·ly
常用短语
参考例句
- He has a bend sinister.
他是庶出的。 - He was a person with sinister designs.
他是个心术不正的人。 - The event was sinister to their enterprise.
该事件对他们的企业不利。 - Sinister storm clouds.
预示暴风雨降临的不祥之云 - The sinister and vicious robbers kidnapped the professor.
歹毒的强盗绑架了教授。
- He has a bend sinister.
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
[同] forbidding, baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
[例]- a baleful look
- forbidding thunderclouds
- his tone became menacing
- ominous rumblings of discontent
- sinister storm clouds
- a sinister smile
- his threatening behavior
- ugly black clouds
- the situation became
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
[同] dark, black, sinister
[例]- black deeds
- a black lie
- his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
- Darth Vader of the dark side
- a dark purpose
- dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
- the scheme of some sinister intelligenc
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- on or starting from the wearer's left
[例]- bar sinister
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