villain的意思|villain的解释-里氏词典

villain ['vilәn]

n. 坏人, 恶棍

[法] 歹徒, 恶棍, 恶徒

villain

[ noun ]

a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

<noun.person>

the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction

<noun.person>

Villain \Vil"lain\, a. [F. vilain.]
Villainous. [R.] --Shak.

Villain \Vil"lain\, n. [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus,
from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See {Villa}.]
1. (Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or servile,
tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest
class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also
{villan}, and {villein}.]

If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant,
and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his
posterity also must do so, though accidentally they
become noble. --Jer. Taylor.

Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that
is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti gleb[ae]); and
villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of
their lord, and transferable from one to another.
--Blackstone.

2. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.]

Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the
blood of the gentleman in another, what difference
shall there be proved? --Becon.

3. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and
capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel;
a knave; a rascal; a scamp.

Like a villain with a smiling cheek. --Shak.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.
--Pope.

Villain \Vil"lain\, v. t.
To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.

At Port Mobil and at the high-volume Gulf stations along the Maine Turnpike, where prices were a few pennies lower, motorists had no difficulty seizing on a villain.
But Anthony Galde is an unmenacing teen-age villain, the kind of street punk who would have been out-of-date in the original production of "West Side Story."
Delta Air Lines, which has been portrayed as the villain in the collapse of Pan Am, also successfully bid $25 million for Pan Am's authority to serve a route between New York and Mexico City.
By stopping to ensure an ambulance was called before making his getaway, the robber left the bank convinced that he would be judged a popular hero rather than a villain. Well, not quite.
The only character who glimmers with the promise of unpredictability is Rip Torn's cagey Buford Pope, the kind of villain who always tips his hat to a lady, even when he's about to murder her.
The favorite villain in the "leadership gap" is Congress, and with some cause.
I have worked hard in conservation causes all my life and want all the gardeners who know me from television, books and lectures to be assured that I am not the environmental villain portrayed by Ms. Hagan.
"It appears that thick fog in the area at the time played the villain's role as the pilot flew blindly into the mountainside," said an airline official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Christopher Lloyd, scarcely recognizable as the evil mastermind, is an ideal villain.
It is not quite clear whether Sweeney is a hero or a villain.
For years they took one look at me and said, 'You're the villain.'
"Right or wrong, the umpire's always the villain," Conlan once said. "That's the way it's been for 100 years and you learn to take it.
The Jesuit Father General Arrupe is a central villain for Mr. Martin because (thesis) he turned humanist as seen in his key speech, "Men for Others," where he never mentions God, Christ or salvation.
"It was something I always wanted to do. It was like a small boy who dreams of catching the game-winning touchdown or rescuing the heroine from the villain.
"Hollywood's Favorite Heavy" acknowledges the existence of these new villains, and admits that they contrast strikingly with the usual crime-drama villain, who brandishes a weapon or dumps toxic chemicals just long enough to get caught by the hero.
The study raises the possibility that coffee without caffeine could be the real villain.
Standing downstage watching him is the thin, angular figure of Hamlet, who had fully intended to kill the king but now hesitates because he fears that by doing so he will "this same villain send to heaven."
August merely records that madness in the performances, but the performances at best, especially from Mrs August, are richness enough. If God is a supporting villain in The Best Intentions, he is the arch-villain in Michael Tolkin's The Rapture.
Among 'the hero, the villain, the dispatcher and the donor' was a striking omission: the local people. Local relief workers are almost always the greatest contributors to the provision of emergency relief.
"We sometimes have a guest villain on the show, but we try to concentrate on human relations.
The villain of the piece, a steel-plated warrior called Shak Graa, looks like a tin-can version of Darth Vader and sounds like the Phantom of the Opera with a head cold.
At stops in Texas and Nebraska on Monday, Congress was the villain along with that "inside-the-Washington, D.C., beltway jargon." More of the same was certain to follow today as Bush campaigns in Iowa, Illinois and Michigan.
John McLaughlin, an ex-priest turned talk-show host, flatly declared on his TV show that the villain was Gephardt media consultant David Doak.
Here are their responses: Media Studies: There is a tendency for the story of this crisis to follow two tracks _ one a story of global political intrigue, another a moral tale of right and wrong, of hero and villain.
In another scene, Keach and a villain wrestle in a surveillance area above the Hilton's giant casino, then crash through the ceiling onto a craps table below.
Croatia becomes Balkan villain, Page 2 WHEN a farm labourer loses his job, the prospects look grim.
The detective hero, a piscatorial Morse, is with the chief suspect. The villain's hitherto unbreakable alibi depends in some way - the details are still sketchy - on him passing himself off as an angler.
The wealthy Engelhard Jr., known as the "platinum king," also was a friend of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and supposedly served as an inspiration for the character of the villain Goldfinger.
Her father, Dick Thies, had played the villain in Western movies before going into advertising.
Not even the film's two best turns - a suave, George Sanders-accented villain and a skateboarding dog - can stop all hands going down with the ice-floe. Turtles 3 is something stranger, eerier.

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