英语释义

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

  "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 ugly"

• on or starting from the wearer's left;

  "bar sinister"

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable;

  "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 intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

片语

Bend Sinister a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left

同义词： bar sinister

Sinister Slaughter唱片名

Too sinister太阴险

snaky阴险的；弯弯曲曲的；似蛇的

sinister toy兇残玩具乐队

Sinister Intentions豺狼野心

sinister treacherous阴险

ventriculus sinister左心室

left sinister左边的

insidious（Insidious）《潜伏》（电影名）

英汉例句

• more sinister still is the news that her bonus is due to 「improved year-over-year diversity representation」.

  更险恶的一点是说发她的奖金是为了表彰「年年有所改善的多元代表性」。

• in a new book, the political gene: how darwin「s ideas changed politics, he highlights how often — and how easily — darwin」s big idea has been harnessed for sinister political ends.

  他在自己的新作《政治基因：达尔文观念如何改变政治》中，着重阐述了达尔文的根本观点是如何经常并且轻易地被用于险恶的政治目的。

• sinister but good people, they are after nothing but themselves, will not help me.

  可是人心好险恶，他们只顾自己，绝不会帮我。

• 「the anyuanding affair is so sinister and damaging, it appears that the public security authorities were left with little choice but to intervene and investigate,」 mr. xu said.

  「安元鼎事件是如此邪恶和极具破坏性，似乎公共安全局仅留下了一丁点选择权，那就是干涉和调查。」许如是说。

• when it comes to sinister species, parsing fact from fiction can be spellbinding.

  当提及到邪恶物种时，小说的解析部分就会引人入胜了。

• even the sinister bio-mimicry of the preying mantis, luring unsuspecting pollinators to their death, has a beautiful symmetry to it.

  ——即使是邪恶的捕食螳螂，它用以引诱不知情者上钩的拟态，也是一个美丽的对称形态。

• for some, the idea of these 「three weird sisters」 (as ted hughes called them, borrowing from shakespeare) weaving their magic together is sinister in its resonance – the stuff of grimm fairytales.

  对某些人来说「怪异三姐妹」（泰德·休斯这样叫过，来源于莎士比亚）是魔幻与邪恶的交织——这种回响来自于格林童话。

• the sinister symmetry of that theory is misleading, though.

  只是这个险恶的对称理论是容易误导人的。

• you misunderstand your father. it is not he who is vicious, sinister and merciless, but some people in purgatory.

  你误解了你的父亲，狠毒，阴险，无情的不是他，而是炼狱中的一些人；他是引领我们通往天堂的神。

• there is a sinister backdrop to traditional depictions of judas.

  关于犹大的传统描述有着用心险恶的背景。

• it is easy to be captivated by intelligent, seemingly friendly sea creatures such as dolphins or even by the hunting prowess of the more sinister sharks.

  我们很容易被聪明而貌似友好的海洋生物，如海豚，乃至较险恶的鲨鱼狩猎的威力所迷惑。

• the reason all this seems so sinister to you is that you are one of the few survivors from the old regime, which means you naturally distrust the team coming in and resent their clannishness.

  而所有这些在你看来都如此邪恶，原因是，你是少数几个从旧体制中幸存下来的人之一，这意味着，你必然会不信任新进来的团队，并憎恨他们的帮派行为。

• a sinister thing, the simple virus is fraught with doom, not quite dead yet not fully alive, it exists in that nether genre somewhere between disaster movies and horror flicks.

  作为一种险恶的东西，小小的病毒命运多舛，半死不活，只有在灾难电影或者恐怖电影里才能见到，乏人问津。

• the sinister harrison tells stella that her lover, robert, is a traitor, but that she can keep him safe if she sleeps with harrison and does not reveal what she has been told.

  阴险的哈里森告诉斯特拉说她的爱人罗伯特是叛徒，而如果她和哈里森睡觉他就不会把告诉斯特拉的话传出去，这样就能保证罗伯特的安全。

• and things soon turned even more sinister - for the military began investigating whether human thought could inflict damage on living creatures.

  诸如此类的研究很快变得更加邪恶了，因为军方开始研究人类的意念是否有可能加害于活着的动物。

• the shelters lured you in, put you off, and wore you down, with a sinister plan to palm off the mangiest, least desirable dogs they had left.

  这些收容所先引诱你进入，设法让你动心，然后把你拖住，运用一种阴险的计谋，将那些长满疥癣的、没人会看上眼的狗儿卖给你。

• we arrived at the right peak at five, two of us dragging ourselves pitifully, while carlo was seized by a sinister hilarity that i found slightly irritating.

  五点钟我们到达了右面的山峰，我们两个人拖着沉重的步子可怜兮兮地走着，而卡罗却受到险恶的快乐的驱使，我感觉略微有些气恼。

• one of the cleverest tricks of the cultural left is demonizing perfectly reasonable actions and opinions by giving them sinister names.

  最擅长的把戏之一就是：赋予「完全合理的行为或主张」一个邪恶的词使之妖魔化。

相似词

dishonest不诚实的；欺诈的

crooked弯曲的；歪的；不正当的

evil罪恶，邪恶；不幸

fraudulent欺骗性的；不正的

bad坏事；坏人

wrong不公正地对待，委屈；诽谤

corrupt使腐烂；使堕落，使恶化

accursed被诅咒的；讨厌的；可憎的

forbidding（外表）冷峻的，令人生畏的；令人厌恶的；险恶的

evil罪恶，邪恶；不幸

black黑色的；黑人的；邪恶的

fraudulent欺骗性的；不正的

bad坏事；坏人

baleful恶意的；有害的

crooked弯曲的；歪的；不正当的

corrupt使腐烂；使堕落，使恶化

dishonest不诚实的；欺诈的

ominous预兆的；不吉利的

wrong不公正地对待，委屈；诽谤

hateful可憎的；可恨的；可恶的

cursed诅咒（curse的过去分词）