malice

名词 malice:

1. feeling a need to see others suffer
   同义词：maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom
2. the quality of threatening evil
   同义词：malevolence, malevolency

1. There was a smack of malice in her reply.
   她回答中含有恶意。
2. I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.
   我觉察出他的话里微带恶意。
3. It seems so absurd to bear malice after all that.
   经过这一切之后还抱有怨恨情绪是很荒谬的。
4. She certainly bears you no malice.
   她对你的确并无恶意。

mal.ice

n.（名词）
A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
恶意：期望伤害别人或看到别人受苦；极端的恶意或怨恨
Law The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.
【法律】 预谋：无正当意图或理由地去做导致别人伤害的错误行为的动机

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin malitia
源自 拉丁语 malitia
from malus [bad] * see mel- 3
源自 malus [坏的] *参见 mel- 3