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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

do evil
  1. 1. [Law] 为非作歹作恶

Examples

Some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
某些人没有能力做好事,同时也没有能力阻止邪恶的东西。
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
人们做了恶事,死后不免遭人痛骂,但他们所做的善事却往往与其尺骨一起入土。
他向来疾恶如仇、去恶务尽。
He always has a strong hatred of evil practices and he hopes to do away with evil completely.
鼓捣别人去干坏事
incite people to do evil
昧着良心
(do evil) against one's conscience
作恶多端
do all kinds of evil; be steeped in iniquity
为虎作伥
play the jackal to the tiger—help a villain do evil
为非作歹
do evil; commit crimes; perpetrate outrages
作孽
do evil; commit a sin
你干这种坏事,早晚吃枪子儿。
Do evil things like this, and you will be shot dead some day.

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