mischief
常考释义
1.淘气;恶作剧;顽皮bad behaviour (especially of children) that is annoying but does not cause any serious damage or harm
Those children are always getting into mischief .那些孩子总是淘气。
I try to keep out of mischief .我尽量不胡闹。
It's very quiet upstairs; they must be up to some mischief !楼上很安静,他们一定在搞什么恶作剧!
2.恶意;使坏的念头the wish or tendency to behave or play in a way that causes trouble
Her eyes were full of mischief.她眼睛里满是使坏的神情。
3.伤害;毁损harm or injury that is done to sb or to their reputation
The incident caused a great deal of political mischief.这一事件造成了严重的政治危害。
Miss Su was up to mischief, no doubt. And if she didn't come, so much the better as that would leave just Miss T'ang and himself.
苏小姐无疑地在捣乱,她不来更好,只剩自己跟唐小姐两人。
The wind makes mischief for a girl dressed in her festival best in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
阿根廷西北部的萨尔塔省,一个小姑娘穿着节日的盛装,但是风跟她玩了个恶作剧。
If I should take it into my head to tell what I had heard, tremendous mischief could result.
如果我心血来潮,把听到的都讲出去,那会闯大祸的。
Within a year, he was caught for mischief and fighting outside a bar and a two-year detention in the boy's home followed.
不到一年,他因为在酒廊外滋事殴斗,被拘进收容所两年。
There was a glint of mischief in her eyes.
她的眼中闪过了一丝调皮。
The little war of the telegram had given me a glimpse of her love of mischief.
这场关于电报的战役让我看到了她对不幸的人们的爱。
After the incident, when a reporter asked him, he said he did not pass over that picture, he is a the victims of hackers and mischief.
事发后记者问他的时候,他说他没有传过那张照片,他是一个黑客和恶作剧的受害者。
as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
愚妄人以行恶为戏耍。明哲人却以智慧为乐。
So when you see someone prompt a girl to talk and it takes forever for her to react, it is exactly that mischief at work.
于是当你看见有人想一个女人说话时,她半天没有反应过来,正是此因作怪。
To keep us out of mischief, my mother often took my brother and me with her to her cooking job.
妈妈不让我和弟弟淘气,常把我们俩带到她做饭的那家去。
As to his cousin, she wept, with all her might; aghast at the mischief she had done: though she said nothing.
至于他表姐呢,拚命大哭,为她所惹的祸吓坏了;虽然她并没说什么。
My boy is such a mischief maker, I am at my wits end with him.
我的儿子是个捣蛋鬼,我真拿他没办法。
"Don't be hasty" , said the captain. "Don't do a mischief before you see the need of it. "
“慢着,慢着,”船长也叫道,“在你看出有必要以前,请别闹出乱子来。”
If Mary Lincoln had known how much pernicious mischief Herndon would perpetrate in later years, she might have been more self-serving.
如果玛丽·林肯早知赫恩登在以后年代中能造成多么致命的伤害,她可能会为自己多考虑一些。
While my wife was cooking she kept half an eye on the baby to see that she didn't get into mischief.
我太太一边煮饭一边时时瞟着小宝宝,怕她淘起气来。
They have a sense of mischief. You know, if you see elephants down at the water hole flying around, you know. . .
它们有恶作剧感。你知道,如果你看到水塘边的大象欢闹,你知道…
Those boys have been up to mischief again; they've put water all over the floor.
那些男孩又淘气了,他们把地板上弄得到处都是水。
The distinguishing mark of Man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
这与人类的标志——手是不同的,那是他们作恶的器官。
She suspected the children were up to some mischief and she found them in the garden digging up the flowers.
她猜到那些孩子会捣鬼,发现他们正在花园里把那些花儿连根挖起。
She knew the children were up to mischief, and she found them digging up the flowers.
她早知道那些孩子打算胡闹,果然发现他们在掘花木。
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