| 单词 | vice |
| 释义 | vice vice1 /vuys/, n. 1. an immoral or evil habit or practice. 2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice. 3. sexual immorality, esp. prostitution. 4. a particular form of depravity. 5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style. 6. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice. 7. a bad habit, as in a horse. 8. (cap.) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon. [1250-1300; ME < AF, OF < L vitium a fault, defect, vice] Syn. 1. See fault. 2. depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness, corruption. 5. blemish. Ant. 1, 2. virtue. vice2 /vuys/, n. , v.t. , viced, vicing. vise. vice3 /vuy"see, -seuh, vuys/, prep. instead of; in the place of. [1760-70; < L: instead of, abl. of vicis (gen.; not attested in nom.) interchange, alternation] |
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