vice
noun /vaɪs/
/vaɪs/
- [uncountable] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs
（与性或毒品有关的）罪行 - At the door were two plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad.
门口是两个扫黄缉毒队的便衣侦探。 - The bright 21-year-old turned to a secret life of vice after getting bored with her studies at college.
这位聪明的21岁女孩在厌倦了大学学习后，开始了秘密的堕落生活。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- secret
- have
- indulge
- indulge in
- …
- At the door were two plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad.
- [uncountable, countable] behaviour that is evil or immoral; a quality in somebody’s character that is evil or immoral
恶行；不道德行为；堕落；邪恶 - The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded.
这部电影有个令人满意的结局：邪恶受到惩治，美德得到报偿。 - Greed is a terrible vice.
贪婪是一种恶习。 - (humorous) Cigarettes are my only vice.
我唯一的罪过就是爱抽烟。
Topics Personal qualitiesc1- He used his inheritance to indulge his vices of drinking and gambling.
他挥霍遗产，沉湎于酗酒、赌博的恶习之中。 - Of his many vices, his cruelty was the worst.
他作恶多端，尤以残暴为甚。 - She often spends a fortune on clothes—it's her greatest vice.
她经常在衣服上花很多钱——这是她最大的缺点。 - The occasional cigar is my only vice.
我唯一的罪过是偶尔抽支烟。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- secret
- have
- indulge
- indulge in
- …
- The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded.
- enlarge image(especially British English)(North American English usually vise)[countable] a tool with two metal blocks that can be moved together by turning a screw. The vice is used to hold an object in place while work is done on it.
台钳；虎钳 - He held my arm in a vice-like (= very firm) grip.
他的手像虎钳一样紧紧抓住了我的手臂。
- He held my arm in a vice-like (= very firm) grip.
词源senses 1 to 2 Middle English: via Old French from Latin vitium.sense 3 Middle English (denoting a screw or winch): from Old French vis, from Latin vitis ‘vine’.