baleful

英 [ˈbeɪlfl]

美 [ˈbeɪlfl]

adj.  威吓的; 凶恶的; 恶意的

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BNC.21945 / COCA.26489

牛津词典

adj.

• 威吓的；凶恶的；恶意的
  threatening to do sth evil or to hurt sb
  1. a baleful look/influence
     凶恶的外表 / 势力

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 有害的；恶意的；邪恶的
  Balefulmeans harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
  1. ...a baleful look.
     恶毒的眼神

英英释义

adj

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  1. a baleful look
  2. forbidding thunderclouds
  3. his tone became menacing
  4. ominous rumblings of discontent
  5. sinister storm clouds
  6. a sinister smile
  7. his threatening behavior
  8. ugly black clouds
  9. the situation became ugly
  Synonym:forbiddingmenacingminaciousminatoryominoussinisterthreatening
• deadly or sinister
  1. the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look
  Synonym:baneful

双语例句

• Baleful: we should give her powerful counterattack.
  恶意的：我们应该给与有力的反击。
• If we did not have the baleful example of 2007-08, this would already be a significant crisis.
  若不是经历过2007-08年那次痛苦的危机，本轮危机可能早就演变成了一场重大的危机。
• There is nothing so baleful to a small man as the shade of a great one, particularly the great man of a city.
  对小人物来说，最有害的莫过于大人物-尤其是大城市的大人物-的阴影。
• "Tried to sneak up on me," he said." tried to sneak up on me. "his eyes grew more baleful.
  “想偷袭我嗯？”他说。“想偷袭我！”他的眼睛越来越充满恶意。
• She has held a baleful influence over education in Mexico, taking advantage of rules which delegate to the union the hiring and promotion of teachers, as well as the payment of their salaries via opaque accounts.
  她已经带给墨西哥教育不良的影响，利用身为工会代表的法令规定掌控教师聘雇和晋升，以及藉由不透明的账户支付教师薪水。
• It is commen to cause baleful aftereffect for the composite laminated thin-walled structures buckling failure in shear.
  复合材料层合结构在纯剪切载荷作用下会发生失稳破坏，造成灾难性的后果是常见的。
• Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, the day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, I must up-fill this osier cage of ours with baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
  现在，太阳神还未圆睁火红的眼睛，白昼还未欢腾，露水还未晒干；我必须用苦涩的野草和鲜艳的花朵盛满我这个柳条筐。
• This takes Mr Obama some distance from the commonplace caricatures of only a couple of months ago. Then, even sympathetic observers were drawing baleful comparisons with the foreign policy calamities of Mr Carter's presidency.
  仅仅两个月前，丑化嘲讽奥巴马还是家常便饭。那时候，即使是同情的观察家，也狠狠地把他与卡特时代的外交政策灾难相提并论。
• And it is not just the baleful presence of a vast, assertive and highly flexible censorship apparatus that accounts for this evolution: the formative forces of. cn also include cultural preferences and social structures that are very different from those of the west.
  而且，一个庞大、独断而又高度灵活的审查机器，并不是这种演变的唯一原因：与西方迥异的文化偏好与社会结构，也是推动.cn发展的力量。
• The stored grains are usually subject to infraction from baleful biology such as insect, mildew and mouse, et al in the course of storing, but insects are the main jeopardy to provision-storage.
  粮食在储藏过程中常常遭受虫、霉、鼠等有害生物的侵害造成质和量的损失，而其主要危害来自于储粮害虫。