sinister
adjective /ˈsɪnɪstə(r)/
/ˈsɪnɪstər/
- seeming evil or dangerous; making you think something bad will happen
邪恶的；险恶的；不祥的；有凶兆的 - There was something cold and sinister about him.
他给人一种冷酷阴险的感觉。 - There is another, more sinister, possibility.
还有另一种更糟糕的可能。 - We needn’t assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
我们不必假定她所做的事有险恶的动机。
- I found his silence rather sinister.
我觉得他的沉默显得有几分险恶。 - There was a sinister undertone in his words.
他的话中有不祥的弦外之音。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
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- extremely
- fairly
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词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘malicious, underhand’): from Old French sinistre or Latin sinister ‘left’. - There was something cold and sinister about him.