perverse
adjective /pəˈvɜːs/
/pərˈvɜːrs/
- showing a deliberate and determined desire to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable
执拗的；任性的；不通情理的 - a perverse decision (= one that most people do not expect and think is wrong)
悖谬的决定 - She finds a perverse pleasure in upsetting her parents.
她让父母担惊受怕，从任性中得到快乐。 - Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
你是真要那样，还是故意作对？ - For some perverse reason he is refusing to see a doctor.
他太固执，拒不去看病。 - It would be perverse to quit now that we’re almost finished.
我们就快完工了，现在要退出，未免太任性了。 - This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse.
这种推理极不符合常理。
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词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘turned away from what is right or good’): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus ‘turned about’, from the verb pervertere, from per- ‘thoroughly, to ill effect’ + vertere ‘to turn’. - a perverse decision (= one that most people do not expect and think is wrong)