英 [spaɪt] 美 [spaɪt]
n. 恶意，怨恨；不顾，尽管；不由自主地
vt. 刁难，使恼怒
复数spites
第三人称单数spites
现在分词spiting
过去式spited
过去分词spited
spite /spaɪt/ CET4 TEM4
习语 You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising. 尽管
Josef Krips at the State Opera hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage.
国家歌剧院的约瑟夫•克里普斯雇佣了她，尽管她从未在台上演唱过。
习语 If you do something in spite of yourself, you do it although you did not really intend to or expect to. 不由自主地
The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.
那率直的评论使得理查德不由自主地笑了起来。
不可数名词 If you do something cruel out of spite, you do it because you want to hurt or upset someone. 恶意
I refused her a divorce, out of spite I suppose.
我拒绝了她离婚的要求，我想是出于怨恨。
及物动词 If you do something cruel to spite someone, you do it in order to hurt or upset them. 存心伤害
Pantelaras was giving his art collection away for nothing, to spite Marie and her husband.
潘特拉拉斯将他的艺术收藏品无偿赠送了，存心惹怒玛丽和她的丈夫。
feeling a need to see others suffer
同义词： malice / maliciousness / spitefulness / venom
malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
同义词： cattiness / bitchiness / spitefulness / nastiness
... prescription药方；指示；惯例 spite怨恨 bound富有责任的，边界，界限， ...
... angle --- 角度，角落 spite --- 困扰；不顾 apple --- 苹果 ...
... 不够: nesufiĉe 不顾: spite 不结盟国家: nealiancita lando ...
spiteful 怀恨的，恶意的
spitefully 怀恨地；怀有恶意地
spitefulness 怀恨在心；充满恶意
不顾；恶意；怨恨
刁难；使恼怒
In spite of great peril, I have survived.
尽管危险巨大，我还是活了下来。
Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
她以前从来没有碰到过这样的恶意和狭隘。
In spite of my outward calm I was very shaken.
尽管表面看似镇静，我内心却非常慌乱。
We also say that sometimes a person cuts off his nose to spite his face.
VOA : special.2009.09.13
In fact in spite of the way we tell our story we actually changed the assignment.
尽管实验的过程是这样,可我们实际做了些改变。
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But in spite of that, I noticed that as I went, as I ventured outside of law school,
但尽管那样，当我走出法学院，开始去外面闯荡的时候，我发现
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 哥伦比亚的氛围
Many in these stricken villages say their roots are here and in spite of the disaster, they are deeply tied to the land and people.
VOA : standard.2009.10.07
Officials say oil is moving onto land, in spite of boom and other containment measures.
VOA : standard.2010.06.01
In spite of his low approval ratings, a huge majority of registered voters opposed the recall.
In spite of huge gas reserves, Libya's power plants mostly run on diesel fuel.
Yet in spite of her storied career, Ferreira had never performed in New York City.