| 单词 | wilful |
| 释义 | wil·ful British English, willful American English /ˈwɪlfəl/ adjective 1 STUBBORNcontinuing to do what you want, even after you have been told to stop – used to show disapproval 任性的；固执的〔含贬义〕 a wilful child 任性的孩子2. wilful damage/disobedience/exaggeration etc DELIBERATELYdeliberate damage etc, when you know that what you are doing is wrong 故意损害/违抗/夸大其词等 —wilfully adverb —wilfulness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpuswilful• Indeed, her doubt could be described as wilful blindness.• She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta, but there was real, wilful contrariness in it, I suspected.• And just as her peculiar, rebellious, wilful escapade had gone wrong ... so had theirs.• Sometimes kids who are described as difficult or wilful just need a little extra love and attention.• He lived a very wilful life, and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood.• Billy is a very wilful little boy who's constantly being punished for not doing as he's told.• Actually the quarrel was largely due to Apollinaire's careless use of terms and to a rather wilful misunderstanding on the part of Boccioni.• The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder.• Partly, no doubt, the figures include at least some wilful or at least entirely feckless credit misusers.• For doubt, full grown, is not a lapse of memory but a wilful refusal to remember.wil·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable Corpus to even do you want, continuing what after |
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