villain

/vil-uhn/US // ˈvɪl ən //UK // (ˈvɪlən) //

小人,恶棍,恶人,小人儿

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- : a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
- : a person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad: Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.
- : villein.

nounevil person

Synonyms

To begin with, there’s Ursula, a flamboyantly campy villain who lives to be over the top.
He has avoided labeling any actual villains he would blame for San Diego’s problems.
Instead, Halliburton claims, health administrators treated him like a villain for calling.
For years, publishers have singled out the duopoly — Google and Facebook — as the industry’s mega villain characters, hoovering up the majority of the digital advertising pie and leaving behind just the crumbs for everyone else to play with.
China’s accelerating AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention, but it is unhelpful to reduce all the many developments into a simplistic narrative about China as a threat or a villain.
I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.
When I play a villain, I always try to make sure they believe what they are doing is right.
I say a lot that in the story of racism in America nobody wants to be the villain.
Bill Cosby, it seems, can only be seen in two registers: sainted family man of a much-loved sitcom, or fallen, tarnished villain.
And if there was a villain on whom to pin this whole struggle—it would be our inner demons.
"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.

/vil-uhn/US // ˈvɪl ən //UK // (ˈvɪlən) //

小人,恶棍,恶人,小人儿

n.名词 noun

1
- : a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- : a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
- : a person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad: Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.
- : villein.

nounevil person

Synonyms

To begin with, there’s Ursula, a flamboyantly campy villain who lives to be over the top.
He has avoided labeling any actual villains he would blame for San Diego’s problems.
Instead, Halliburton claims, health administrators treated him like a villain for calling.
For years, publishers have singled out the duopoly — Google and Facebook — as the industry’s mega villain characters, hoovering up the majority of the digital advertising pie and leaving behind just the crumbs for everyone else to play with.
China’s accelerating AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention, but it is unhelpful to reduce all the many developments into a simplistic narrative about China as a threat or a villain.
I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.
When I play a villain, I always try to make sure they believe what they are doing is right.
I say a lot that in the story of racism in America nobody wants to be the villain.
Bill Cosby, it seems, can only be seen in two registers: sainted family man of a much-loved sitcom, or fallen, tarnished villain.
And if there was a villain on whom to pin this whole struggle—it would be our inner demons.
"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.