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单词 mischief
释义 mis·chief
I. \ˈmis(h)chə̇f\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief calamity, misfortune, from mes- mis- (I) + chef, chief end, head — more at chief
1. obsolete : calamity : misfortune
 < to mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. : a specific injury or damage caused by a person or other agency
  < will never forget the mischiefs they have done to us >
  < the polished floor … often causes mischiefs — bruises, sprains, dislocations — Herbert Spencer >
 b. : harm, evil, or damage that results from a particular agency or cause
  < one failure led to another, suspicion became general, and the mischief was done — J.A.Todd >
  < the concealment of a truth, with its resultant false beliefs, must produce mischief — G.B.Shaw >
3. : a diseased condition : a cause of sickness
 < the mischief is out of your system, and all you have to do is to build your system up — John Buchan >
4.
 a. : a cause or source of harm, evil, or irritation; especially : a person who causes mischief
  < housing in rocks, of mariners the mischief — Robert Browning >
  < he's a real mischief to his family >
 b. : the aspect of a situation or the quality of a thing that produces harm or causes irritation
  < the mischief of snow is that it turns to slush >
  < the mischief is that people … do not confine themselves to one cocktail — Arnold Bennett >
5. : devil
 < an accident that played the mischief with his plans >
 < can't see why in the mischief you ever got mixed up with that reform gang — Willa Cather >
6.
 a. : action or conduct that annoys or irritates wihout causing or meaning to cause serious harm
  < little wretches, always up to some mischief … all bedraggled from some roguery — Virginia Woolf >
  < a seasonal ritual among Rochester's youth, like today's Halloween mischiefs — S.H.Adams >
 b. : mischievousness
  < inclined to mischief rather than malice — American Guide Series: Arizona >
  < a defiance, offered from sheer, youthful, wanton mischief — Arnold Bennett >
7. : discord, dissension
 < has often made mischief between husband and wife >
 < stirred up mischief between the young people >
Synonyms: see injury
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English mischefen, from mischef, n.
: to do harm to : injure
 < that … tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir — John Milton >
 < any of the other boys … they would have mischiefed, but they just tweaked Peter's nose — J.M.Barrie >
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