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小词详解 | perverse
perverse 英 [pəˈvɜːs] 美 [pərˈvɜːrs]
The industry benefits from two perverse aspects of the tax code—the incentive it provides for loading up companies with debt, and the reduced rate of tax the general partners benefit from owing to most of their personal income being taxed at the rate applied to capital gains.
这一行业得益于税法中两个不合常理的方面:对企业大量借债的激励,以及一般合伙人享受较低的税率——因为其大部分个人收入都可按资本利得的税率缴税。
——《经济学人》Good news in the financial markets could do it, too. That may seem perverse.
金融市场上的好消息也可以做到这一点。这似乎有悖常理。
———《纽约时报》
[形容词] 表现出故意且顽固地想要以不合理或不可接受的方式行事的
听说她姐姐要离婚,那个有毒的女人幸灾乐祸。
The toxic woman took a perverse pleasure in hearing that her elder sister was getting divorced.
跟人作对的鬼天气
perverse weather对于这种请愿不予支持是有悖常情的。
It would be perverse to refuse to support this plea.
生性执拗的人
a man of perverse nature
What a devil he was. Why did such perverse things give him such pleasure?
多坏的家伙!怎么他就专门干这种缺德的事来取乐呀?
balky: awkward; uncooperative contrary: perversely inclined to disagree or to do the opposite of what is expected or desired wayward: difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour