英汉词典

bad 基本解释

• adj. 坏的；严重的；劣质的
• n. 坏事；坏人
• adv. 很，非常；坏地；邪恶地
• n. (Bad)人名；(罗)巴德

bad 词态变化

bad 中文词源

词源同boar, 野猪。古义指狂野的，邪恶的。

bad 英文词源

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bad: [13] For such a common word, bad has a remarkably clouded history. It does not begin to appear in English until the end of the 13th century, and has no apparent relatives in other languages (the uncanny resemblance to Persian bad is purely coincidental). The few clues we have suggest a regrettably homophobic origin. Old English had a pair of words, bǣddel and bǣdling, which appear to have been derogatory terms for homosexuals, with overtones of sodomy.

The fact that the first examples we have of bad, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, are in the sense ‘contemptible, worthless’ as applied to people indicates that the connotations of moral depravity may have become generalized from an earlier, specifically anti-homosexual sense.

bad (adj.)

c. 1200, "inferior in quality;" early 13c., "wicked, evil, vicious," a mystery word with no apparent relatives in other languages.* Possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling "effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast," probably related to bædan "to defile." A rare word before 1400, and evil was more common in this sense until c. 1700. Meaning "uncomfortable, sorry" is 1839, American English colloquial.

Comparable words in the other Indo-European languages tend to have grown from descriptions of specific qualities, such as "ugly," "defective," "weak," "faithless," "impudent," "crooked," "filthy" (such as Greek kakos, probably from the word for "excrement;" Russian plochoj, related to Old Church Slavonic plachu "wavering, timid;" Persian gast, Old Persian gasta-, related to gand "stench;" German schlecht, originally "level, straight, smooth," whence "simple, ordinary," then "bad").

Comparative and superlative forms badder, baddest were common 14c.-18c. and used as recently as Defoe (but not by Shakespeare), but yielded to comparative worse and superlative worst (which had belonged to evil and ill).

As a noun, late 14c., "evil, wickedness." In U.S. place names, sometimes translating native terms meaning "supernaturally dangerous." Ironic use as a word of approval is said to be at least since 1890s orally, originally in Black English, emerging in print 1928 in a jazz context. It might have emerged from the ambivalence of expressions like bad nigger, used as a term of reproach by whites, but among blacks sometimes representing one who stood up to injustice, but in the U.S. West bad man also had a certain ambivalence:

These are the men who do most of the killing in frontier communities, yet it is a noteworthy fact that the men who are killed generally deserve their fate. [Farmer & Henley]

*Farsi has bad in more or less the same sense as the English word, but this is regarded by linguists as a coincidence. The forms of the words diverge as they are traced back in time (Farsi bad comes from Middle Persian vat), and such accidental convergences exist across many languages, given the vast number of words in each and the limited range of sounds humans can make to signify them. Among other coincidental matches with English are Korean mani "many," Chinese pei "pay," Nahuatl (Aztecan) huel "well," Maya hol "hole."

bad 词组搭配

bad 英文释义

1. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency;

"take the bad with the good"

bad 同义词解析

bad, evil, ill, poor, wicked

这些形容词均含"坏的"之意。

bad： 含义广泛，指任何不好的或不合需要的品质。

evil： 语气比bad强，强调道德上的邪恶不良，含狡猾凶险或危害他人的意味。

ill与evil意义接近，但语气弱一些，常指道德或性质方面的不良。

poor： 普通用词，侧重指事物的质量或数量低于标准或不合要求。用于指天气与食品时可与bad通用。

wicked： 语气比evil强，指居心叵测，任意违反道德标准，有意作恶。

bad 双语例句

1. If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.--Jean Paul Sartre

如果你独处时感到寂寞，说明没有把自己陪好。

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2. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.

他把聪明都用在了犯罪上，太可惜了。

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3. When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.

当有合适的女人出现时，这种胡思乱想就会停止了。

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4. She was in rather a bad film about the Mau Mau.

她出演了一部关于茅茅运动（20世纪50年代肯尼亚基库尤人反抗英国殖民者的民族主义运动）的烂片。

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5. Many parents find it hard to discourage bad behaviour.

很多父母觉得要孩子循规蹈矩是件很难的事情。

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bad 实用场景例句

I don't like to hear bad language in the street...

我不喜欢在街上听见一些污言秽语。

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I said a bad word.

我说了一句脏话。

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It is too bad that Eleanor had to leave so soon...

埃莉诺不得不这么快就离开，真是太遗憾了。

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Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.

他把聪明都用在了犯罪上，太可惜了。

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Too bad if you missed the bus.

你没有赶上公交车只能算自己倒霉。

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They bought so much beef that some went bad.

他们买了太多牛肉，有些都变质了。

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I was selling drugs, but I didn't think I was a bad person...

我贩卖毒品，但我并不觉得自己是个坏人。

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He does not think that his beliefs make him any worse than any other man.

他觉得自己的信仰并不让他比其他人更邪恶。

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You are a bad boy for repeating what I told you...

重复我对你说的话，你真是个捣蛋鬼。

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Many parents find it hard to discourage bad behaviour.

很多父母觉得要孩子循规蹈矩是件很难的事情。

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She is in a bit of a bad mood because she's just given up smoking.

因为她刚刚戒烟，所以脾气有点大。

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You don't have to feel bad about relaxing...

你不必为放松感到内疚。

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I feel bad that he's doing most of the work...

大部分工作都是他在干，我觉得很过意不去。

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Alastair has a bad back so we have a hard bed.

阿拉斯泰尔背部有毛病，所以我们睡硬板床。

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'How are you, mate?' — 'Not bad, mate, how's yourself?'...

“最近怎么样，老兄？”——“还不错，你呢？”

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'How much is he paying you?' — 'Oh, five thousand.' —'Not bad.'...

“他给你多少钱？”——“哦，5,000。”——“挺不错嘛。”

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You need at least ten pounds if you go to the cinema nowadays — it's really bad.

现在看场电影至少要花上10英镑——真是太贵了。

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Not being able to hear doesn't seem as bad as not being able to see...

看不见比听不到更让人难以忍受。

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He was a bad driver...

他是一个技术糟糕的司机。

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He had increased Britain's reputation for being bad at languages...

他加深了人们对英国人不擅长语言的印象。

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Many old people in Britain are living in bad housing...

英国有很多老人居住条件恶劣。

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She was in rather a bad film about the Mau Mau...

她出演了一部关于茅茅运动（20世纪50年代肯尼亚基库尤人反抗英国殖民者的民族主义运动）的烂片。

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It was a bad start in my relationship with Warr...

我与沃尔的关系开始得不太顺利。

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The bad weather conditions prevented the plane from landing...

糟糕的天气使飞机无法降落。

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We have been going through a bad time...

我们正经历一段困难时期。

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He had a bad accident two years ago and had to give up farming...

他两年前遇到严重的车祸，不得不放弃务农。

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This was a bad case of dangerous driving...

这是一起严重的危险驾驶案例。

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Economist Jeffrey Faux says a tax cut is a bad idea...

经济学家杰弗里·福克斯认为减税是不明智的。

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Of course politicians will sometimes make bad decisions...

政治家当然有时也会作出错误的决定。

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The closure of the project is bad news for her staff...

项目终止对她的雇员来说是一个不幸的消息。

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