necessary evil
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌnes.ə.ser.i ˈiː.vəl]
- 美式音标 [ˌnes.ə.ser.i ˈiː.vəl]
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基本解释
- n. 無可避免之災禍
英汉例句
- Spam filtering solutions are a necessary evil in today's e-mail climate.
在如今的電子郵件時代中,垃圾郵件過濾解決方案是非常重要的。 - Members of an ad hoc student committee wore black T-shirts with a quotation from Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
學生臨時組成的委員會成員穿了黑色T賉,上麪印著埃德矇-柏尅的話:“邪惡獲勝,衹因善者袖手旁觀”。 - In Paris the idea that a free-market liberal may believe he is defending a moral position (rather than a necessary evil) often causes surprise.
在巴黎,自由市場主義者可能相信他是在防守道義立場(而不是必要之惡)的觀點時常令人咋舌。 - Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing -- the necessary evil that keeps free phones free.
ENGADGET: FCC gives Verizon the third degree over $350 'advanced device' ETF - Unfortunately, they seem to be a necessary evil in this crazy supply-versus-demand world of capitalism we all call home, particularly in light of the spectrum crunch the FCC keeps warning us about.
ENGADGET: Cricket's new tiered data plans seem like a model for the industry to us - The fixtures throughout the Lodge are entirely done by Rocky Mountain Hardware--understated sand-cast bronze with a natural coating that allows the metal to blend into its environment--and in the mercifully small and hidden salon (a necessary evil in all spas) for sanitary reasons, the pedicure areas use copper basins and no jets.
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雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Necessary -evil 不希望但是必須經歷的事情
- A Necessary Evil 必要之惡;無可避免之災禍;一種必不可少的惡;需要之惡
- Psychopaths are a necessary evil 不可避免的災禍
短語
英英字典
- something unpleasant that must be accepted in order to achieve a particular result