All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
— Ovid  ·  Evil

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corrupt [kə'rʌpt] 词频3 词根: cor
adj. 堕落的，道德败坏的;贪污的，腐败的;腐烂的;（文献等）错误百出的; vt. 使腐败;使堕落;使腐烂; vi. 堕落;腐化;腐烂;
💡 cor共同+rupt断→全部断→变坏的，腐败的
"The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers."
警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
近义：debase, pervert, retrogress, rot, bastardise, bastardize 反义：honor, magnify, respect, revere, reverence, venerate
evil ['ivl] 词频1
adj. 邪恶的，罪恶的;有害的;不幸的，不吉的;品行坏的; n. 邪恶，罪恶;坏事，恶行;邪恶的力量、势力或化身;灾祸;
💡 e 加强或引申意义、使…+vil =base （卑劣的） → n.邪恶；祸害 a.坏的
"the evil effects of racism"
种族主义的恶劣影响
近义：ill, infirmity, malady, complaint, affection, disease 反义：goodness, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, loyal
prone [pron] 词频4
adj. 易于…的;俯卧的;有…倾向的;倾斜的，坡陡的;
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"These plants are peculiarly prone to disease."
这些植物特别容易发生病变。
近义：inclined, apt, liable, likely, propense, tending
things
n. 所有物, 财产, 用具, 用品, 局面, 形势, 情况\\n[法] 物
近义：oddments, stuff, doings, articles, etceteras
minds
n. 思想；主意（mind的复数）

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"To be loved, be lovable."
"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
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🏷 更多「Evil」名言

"We must as second best...take the least of the evils."
— Aristotle
"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
— Plato
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
— Simone Weil
"Evil is obvious only in retrospect."
— Gloria Steinem
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
— Ayn Rand
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