sinister

sinister怎么读

英式音标：[ˈsɪnɪstə(r)]

美式音标：[ˈsɪnɪstɚ]

sinister基本解释

adj. 阴险的；凶兆的；灾难性的；左边的

sinister的意思释义

adj.

危险的；不吉祥的；凶兆的；险恶的

双语释义

危险的，不吉祥的，凶兆的，险恶的 dangerous; evil; ominous

英英释义

adj.

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

\"sinister storm clouds\"; \"a sinister smile\"

同义词：balefulforbiddingmenacingminaciousminatoryominousthreatening

stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

\"the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him\"

同义词：blackdark

on or starting from the wearer\'s left

\"bar sinister\"

sinister用法及例句

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

sinister look阴险的神情

sinister motive邪恶的动机

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

He showed his sinister motive at last.

他终于露出了他那邪恶的用心。

The author\'s laconic prose manages to be both dexterous and sinister.

这位作者简洁的文字做到既洗练又有邪恶的暗示。

Maston was oppressed by sinister forebodings.

梅斯顿感到自己被一种不祥的预感紧紧地抓住了。

Events began to take on a more sinister aspect.

事情开始呈现较为不祥的征兆。

例句参考

Sinister strategies succeed at the cricket World Cup.

A Sinister Extension of the Standard Model to SU(3)XSU(2)XSU(2)XU(1)

Sinister psychotics. Left-handedness in schizophrenia and affective disorder

Ultrasound and left-handedness: a sinister association?

Cor triatriatum sinister: assessment by live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.

The Economic Consequences of Being Left-Handed: Some Sinister Results

Cor-triatriatum sinister presenting in the adult as mitral stenosis: an analysis of factors which may be relevant in late presentati...

Deliberative and Automatic Bases of Suspicion: Empirical Evidence of the Sinister Attribution Error

Genital damage, kicking and early death. The battle of the sexes takes a sinister turn in the bean weevil.

sinister词源

sinister

sinister: see left

sinister (adj.)

early 15c., \"prompted by malice or ill-will, intending to mislead,\" from Old French senestre, sinistre \"contrary, false; unfavorable; to the left\" (14c.), from Latin sinister \"left, on the left side\" (opposite of dexter), of uncertain origin. Perhaps meaning properly \"the slower or weaker hand\" [Tucker], but Klein and Buck suggest it\'s a euphemism (see left (adj.)) connected with the root of Sanskrit saniyan \"more useful, more advantageous.\" With contrastive or comparative suffix -ter, as in dexter (see dexterity).The Latin word was used in augury in the sense of \"unlucky, unfavorable\" (omens, especially bird flights, seen on the left hand were regarded as portending misfortune), and thus sinister acquired a sense of \"harmful, unfavorable, adverse.\" This was from Greek influence, reflecting the early Greek practice of facing north when observing omens. In genuine Roman auspices, the augurs faced south and left was favorable. Thus sinister also retained a secondary sense in Latin of \"favorable, auspicious, fortunate, lucky.\"Meaning \"evil\" is from late 15c. Used in heraldry from 1560s to indicate \"left, to the left.\" Bend (not \"bar\") sinister in heraldry indicates illegitimacy and preserves the literal sense of \"on or from the left side\" (though in heraldry this is from the view of the bearer of the shield, not the observer of it).

sinister相关例句

1.Sinister@ actually means something evil and threatening.

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4.a sinister smile.

恶意的笑容

9.bar sinister

盾纹上表示庶出的斜条