vice

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vice /vaɪs/ noun

1 [uncountableU]SCC criminal activities that involve sex or drugs 〔涉及性或毒品的〕罪惡，罪行

the fight against vice on the streets

打擊街頭犯罪

The police have smashed a vice ring (=a group of criminals involved in vice) in Chicago.

警方搗毀了芝加哥的一個犯罪團夥。

2 [countableC]HABIT a bad habit 惡習

Smoking is my only vice.

吸煙是我唯一的惡習。

3 [countableC, uncountableU]BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONS a bad or immoral quality in a person, or bad or immoral behaviour 邪惡；劣根性；惡行，不道德行爲 OPP virtue

Jealousy is a vice.

妒忌是一種惡行。

to reward virtue and punish vice

賞善罰惡

4 vise American EnglishAmE) a tool that holds an object very firmly so that you can work on it 老虎鉗，台鉗

He held my arm like a vice.

他的手像老虎鉗似的緊緊抓住我的胳膊。

Examples from the Corpus

like a vice• The Harris's gripped like a vice and screeched with delight.• Misery gripped her heart like a vice.• The walls closed on him like a vice.• He simply stood and looked at Guy, aware of rage, like a vice, gripping his ribcage.

→ vice-like

Examples from the Corpus

vice• However, drug-taking is a vice, not a crime.• The question remains in both legends equally, nevertheless, as to where virtue ends and vice begins in such pious adventures.• Smoking is one of his few vices.• In spite of his variety of vices, he refuses to let anything age him.• Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises.

vice- /vaɪs/ prefix

vice-president/chairman etc the person next in rank below someone in authority, who can represent them or act instead of them 副總統/主席等

vice-president/chairman etc of

the vice-captain of the cricket team

板球隊的副隊長

vice-chairman Derek Edwards

副主席德裏克·愛德華茲

Origin vice

(1200-1300) Old French Latin vitium “fault, vice”

vice nounvice- prefix

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