单词详解 | violent

violent
音标
美音:/ˈvaɪələnt/,英音:/ˈvaɪələnt/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
When Naples won the league thanks to Maradona, the city had been destroyed by a violent earthquake a few years previously.
当那不勒斯凭借马拉多纳赢得联赛冠军时,这座城市在几年前的一场大地震中被摧毁了。
BBC

While some of the messages were overtly violent and hinted at action at the Capitol, none set forth an explicit plan to storm the building or to forcibly disrupt the election certification taking place inside.
虽然有些信息公开暴力并暗示要在国会大厦采取行动,但没有一个明确计划冲击国会大厦或强行破坏内部进行的选举认证。
New York Times

Prosecutors said that was his subtle way of suggesting that the Ministry of Self-Defense was bent on revolution, and they called the group “a violent gang that came together to use force against its enemies.”
检察官说,这是他暗示自卫队一心想进行革命的微妙方式,他们称该组织为“聚集在一起对敌人使用武力的暴力团伙”。
New York Times

基本释意
adjective
acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
adj. 暴力的;(人)有暴力倾向的;含暴力行为的;剧烈的;(风、暴风雨或爆炸)强烈的,猛烈的;带有强烈愤怒情绪的,激烈的;(颜色的)鲜艳的

同义词
fierce,tearing,trigger-happy,vehement,crimson,red,wild

短释义
Something that’s violent involves physical force or emotional intensity. If you hate violent movies, it means that you don’t want to watch scenes of people being hurt or killed.
暴力的东西涉及体力或情绪强度。如果你讨厌暴力电影,那就意味着你不想看人们受伤或被杀的场面。

长释义
Physically violent behavior ends in someone getting hurt or something being destroyed or damaged. You can also have violent emotions, like a violent burst of anger toward the slow driver in front of you, and you can use violent to describe something that’s visually intense, like a violent orange-colored minivan. The word has gained in force since developing from the Latin word violentia, which means “vehemence or impetuosity.”
身体暴力行为以某人受伤或某物被毁坏或损坏而告终。你也可以有暴力的情绪,比如对你前面的慢车司机的强烈愤怒,你可以用暴力来形容视觉强烈的东西,比如一辆暴力的橙色小型货车。这个词从拉丁词 violentia 发展而来,意思是“激烈或冲动”。

文学例句
Only about a quarter of felony defendants in large urban counties were charged with a violent offense in 2006.
2006 年,大城市县中只有约四分之一的重罪被告被指控犯有暴力罪。
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

“We were wondering if you would be interested in signing a petition to change the school’s mascot to something less violent but still formidable?”
“我们想知道你是否有兴趣签署一份请愿书,将学校的吉祥物改成不那么暴力但仍然令人生畏的东西?”
Here to Stay by Sara Farizan

But Kruger scoffed at this, saying, “Nah, you are all violent Communists!”
但克鲁格对此嗤之以鼻,说:“不,你们都是暴力共产主义者!”
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

词源
violent (adj.)mid-14c., from Old French violent or directly from Latin violentus, related to violare (see violation). In Middle English the word also was applied in reference to heat, sunlight, smoke, etc., with the sense “having some quality so strongly as to produce a powerful effect.” Related: Violently.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
violent (adj.)mid-14c.,来自古法语 violent 或直接来自拉丁语 violentus,与 violare 有关(见 violation)。在中古英语中,这个词也被用来指代热、阳光、烟雾等,意思是“具有某种强烈的特性,可以产生强大的效果”。相关:暴力。相关条目及更多


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