Perversity

(noun.) deliberately deviating from what is good; 'there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism'.

录入:斯威尼

• The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For the second time--with the frantic perversity of a roused woman--she caught me by the arm, and barred my way out. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Why this perversity, if it were not in a generous fit? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Yet a certain perversity would not let her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I thought it was utterly preposterous--I distrusted it as the result of some perversity in my own imagination. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I let you go as a babe, because you were pretty, and I feared your loveliness, deeming it the stamp of perversity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy, and being already much excited, Meg opposed the old lady with unusual spirit. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A spirit of perversity moved her son to rejoin: I don't think it was a question of taste with her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is impossible for me to excuse the perversity that holds you responsible for consequences which neither you nor I could imagine or foresee. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They have their days of perversity, and this morning was one of them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And what a distortion in your judgment, what a perversity in your ideas, is proved by your conduct! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

整理:洛蒂