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spite

/spaɪt/VCE📚 17827 63 3四级六级考研
You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising. 尽管

noun [抽象名词]恶意,怨恨;不顾,尽管;不由自主地

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。

verb [vt. 及物动词]vt. 刁难,使恼怒

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。

spite 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 17 Always young
Lesson 55 Not a gold mine
Lesson 58 A blessing in disguise?
Lesson 14 A noble gangster
Lesson 18 Electric currents in modern art
Lesson 29 Funny or not?
spi(看作spy, 间谍) + te → 人们普遍对间谍怀有怨恨 → 怨恨, 恶意

in spite of oneself adv. 不由自主地

spite

n. 恶意;怨恨;不顾(不管、尽管)

单词造句:
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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。
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。
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。