out of spite

基本解釋

I believe she only did it out of spite.
我認為她做這件事只是出于怨恨。
Then his father abolished his right of inheritance out of spite.
而他父親則出自怨恨廢除了他的繼承權(quán)。
Last year the Poles vetoed the start of talks on a new EU-Russian co-operation agreement, because of a year-long Russian embargo on Polish meat exports, imposed seemingly out of spite.
去年波蘭對開始新一輪歐俄合作協(xié)定談判的議題投了反對票。

In spite of that fact, it turns out that vaccines are one of the best uses of our money in terms of extending the lives of population.
盡管事實如此,結(jié)論顯示,疫苗是在眾多延續(xù)人類生命,花費中最好的方式之一
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Whether he acted out of spite or necessity, the effect has been the same.
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They did so partly out of spite, partly to slow down the allied advance.
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Lawrence Osborne's book The Accidental Connoisseur, however, seems written more or less out of spite for everyone and everything associated with wine, as he searches to better define the notion of taste.
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