- 1調皮的、淘氣的
Someone mischievous likes to cause small amounts of trouble or play tricks, just for fun — not to really hurt anyone. It's often used about children or pets who are naughty, like a mischievous grin before a prank.
core核心畫面
組成mis- ("wrong, badly") + an old French word meaning "to come to an end" — so mischief originally meant something like "a bad outcome."
同家族的字
- mischiefmischievous is built directly from this word
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mischievousadj/ˈmɪs.t͡ʃɪ.vəs/
- 1
Causing mischief; injurious.
- ...; that good and bad actions at present are naturally rewarded and punished, not only as beneficial and mischievous to society, but also as virtuous and civious; ...
- On the whole, therefore, he concludes that the point of indulgence at which these self-passions or self-affections begin to be mischievous to the individual coincides with that at which they begin to be mischievous to society; ...
- 2
Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.
- Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。