out of spite
基本解释
- 出于恶意；为泄恨
英汉例句
- I believe she only did it out of spite.
我认为她做这件事只是出于怨恨。 - Then his father abolished his right of inheritance out of spite.
而他父亲则出自怨恨废除了他的继承权。 - Last year the Poles vetoed the start of talks on a new EU-Russian co-operation agreement, because of a year-long Russian embargo on Polish meat exports, imposed seemingly out of spite.
去年波兰对开始新一轮欧俄合作协定谈判的议题投了反对票。 - In spite of that fact, it turns out that vaccines are one of the best uses of our money in terms of extending the lives of population.
尽管事实如此,结论显示,疫苗是在众多延续人类生命,花费中最好的方式之一
耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选 - Whether he acted out of spite or necessity, the effect has been the same.
ECONOMIST: Turkey’s Kurds - They did so partly out of spite, partly to slow down the allied advance.
ECONOMIST: Will Saddam Hussein sabotage his own oil wells? - Lawrence Osborne's book The Accidental Connoisseur, however, seems written more or less out of spite for everyone and everything associated with wine, as he searches to better define the notion of taste.
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