sinister
sinister 英 [ˈsɪnɪstə(r)] 美 [ˈsɪnɪstɚ]
adj. 邪恶的；不祥的
名词复数:sinisters
- People who are left-handed might feel unlucky having to use a desk designed for right-handers, but there probably wasn't any sinister, or evil, intent behind the design. Or was there?
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- adj. 邪恶的；不祥的
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1. There was something cold and sinister about him.
他给人一种冷酷阴险的感觉。
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2. There is another, more sinister, possibility.
还有另一种更糟糕的可能。
- sinister (adj.) early 15c., "prompted by malice or ill-will, intending to mislead," from Old French senestre, sinistre "contrary, false; unfavorable; to the left" (14c.), from Latin sinister "left, on the left side" (opposite of dexter), of uncertain origin. Perhaps meaning properly "the slower or weaker hand" [Tucker], but Klein and Buck suggest it's a euphemism (see left (adj.)) connected with the root of Sanskrit saniyan "more useful, more advantageous." With contrastive or comparative suffix -ter, as in dexter (see dexterity).
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