单词 | mischief |
释义 | mis·chief I. 1. obsolete < to mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on — Shakespeare > 2. a. < will never forget the mischiefs they have done to us > < the polished floor … often causes mischiefs — bruises, sprains, dislocations — Herbert Spencer > b. < 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. < the mischief is out of your system, and all you have to do is to build your system up — John Buchan > 4. a. < housing in rocks, of mariners the mischief — Robert Browning > < he's a real mischief to his family > b. < 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. < 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. < 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. < inclined to mischief rather than malice — American Guide Series: Arizona > < a defiance, offered from sheer, youthful, wanton mischief — Arnold Bennett > 7. < has often made mischief between husband and wife > < stirred up mischief between the young people > Synonyms: see injury II. < 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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