miscreants

英 [ˈmɪskrɪənts]

美 [ˈmɪskriənts]

n.  缺德的人; 不法之徒
miscreant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 不法之徒;恶棍;歹徒
  Amiscreantis someone who has done something illegal or behaved badly.
  1. Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.
     当地人要求地方法官逮捕那些歹徒。

双语例句

• The army is now fighting "miscreants" all over the tribal areas.
  目前，穆氏手下的军队正与遍布部族地区的“异端分子”作战。
• THE criminal-justice system is often accused of going easy on miscreants.
  刑事司法系统往往被指责对那些歹徒太客气了。
• When they do it, and get a bad response, other potential miscreants are reminded to try anti-Semitism only in the safety of their own homes.
  当他们这么做，却得到糟糕的反应后，对于其他潜在的反犹者会是一个提醒：要想发表反犹太言论，最好还是在自己家里关上门来说比较安全。
• They ensured good behaviour by having miscreants publicly flogged.
  确保运动员们行为得体，并对犯规者施以公开鞭打。
• In pretty much every case, that is enough: jail sentences need not carry on rising exponentially in length to keep potential miscreants in line.
  在几乎每一个案件中，这种判决足矣：刑期不必呈指数增长，才能让那些潜在的罪犯者规矩起来。
• Miscreants can still escape detection by lurking behind nominees, offshore companies and other proxies.
  隐藏在委托代名人、离岸公司和其它代理人背后的恶人仍可逃脱监察。
• Those miscreants will not trouble your establishment again.
  这些恶棍不会再给你的公司找麻烦了。
• She had reported to us that she was tired of the smell of piss of the miscreants whose taste is to avoid the adjacent public toilets, wafting through the cracks in her house.
  她已经跟我们说过，她极其厌恶为了避过公厕而在她家外尿尿的混混儿，那些气味通过墙上的裂缝飘进了她的家。
• My first query – whether miscreants are likely to answer incriminating questions truthfully – is one nearly every visa applicant asks.
  我的第一个疑问：邪恶分子有没有可能如实回答关于犯罪的问题？这也是几乎每个签证申请者会问的问题。
• When the scandal over MPs 'expenses erupted in 2009, he was quick to purge miscreants in his own party.
  2009年议员报销丑闻爆出后，他迅速清除了自己党内的行为不端者。