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fiends
恶棍;残忍狠毒的人
fiends is the plural of fiend.
核心释义
a very cruel, wicked, and inhuman person
- 1.
魔鬼或恶魔;恶毒的或魔鬼般的存在;邪灵。
A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
- 2.
残酷邪恶无人性的人
a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- 3.
非常邪恶的人。
A very evil person.
- 4.
邪恶的超自然生物
an evil supernatural being
- 5.
受非理性狂热驱使的人
a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); --Winston Churchill
魔鬼;恶魔;邪灵;狂热爱好者;…迷;魔鬼或恶魔;恶毒的或魔鬼般的存在;邪灵。;残酷邪恶无人性的人;非常邪恶的人。
用法In use
My sister is a chocolate fiend — she keeps a stash of candy in her desk drawer.
用法提示:fiend 在这里作名词,前接 chocolate,指对巧克力极度痴迷的人。
He's such a fitness fiend that he runs ten kilometers before work every morning.
用法提示:fiend 在这里作名词,与 fitness 连用,指对健身极度狂热的人。
Our neighbor is a gardening fiend who grows vegetables all year round.
用法提示:fiend 在这里作名词,与 gardening 连用,指痴迷于园艺的人。
a fiend for [noun/gerund]
表示对某事物极度热衷的人。
He is a fiend for exercise.
他是个锻炼狂。
a [noun] fiend
常用于复合词,表示对某物上瘾或痴迷的人。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- a fiend in human form
- 披着人皮的恶魔;人面兽心的家伙
- He seemed kind, but his neighbors knew he was a fiend in human form.他看上去很和善,可邻居们都知道他是个人面兽心的家伙。
- a fiend from hell
- 地狱来的魔鬼
- The villagers believed the creature was a fiend from hell.村民们相信那个怪物是从地狱来的魔鬼。
- a crossword fiend
- 填字游戏狂迷
- My uncle is a crossword fiend and solves one every morning.我叔叔是个填字游戏狂迷,每天早上都要解一道。
- a drug fiend
- 吸毒成瘾者
- The clinic helps drug fiends break their addiction.这家诊所帮助吸毒成瘾者戒除毒瘾。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
friend去掉r就是fiend(恶魔)——恶魔没有朋友,记住friend少了个r。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域:mixed 常见场景:religious and literary texts、crime news and serious writing、everyday talk about interests fiend 的语体随义项变化:指“魔鬼/恶魔”时多用于宗教或文学作品,较正式;指“凶恶的人”时常见于新闻或严肃叙述;指“狂热爱好者”(如 coffee fiend)时偏口语化。使用时请根据上下文判断。
语法说明Grammar Note
本词只作名词,不能用作形容词或动词;用于指人时带有强烈贬义。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine rhymes: cleaned, screened, weaned, and greened rhyme with fiend /fiːnd/. Be careful: friend /frɛnd/ and field /fiːld/ look similar but have different vowels or endings, so they do not rhyme.
一起学习词形Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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