Badness

(noun.) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.

录入:温思罗普

• Then he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness of his imitations? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She was so very good herself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Instead of trying to crush badness we must turn the power behind it to good account. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The worst had once been matter of trembling conjecture; it was now matter of reason only, a limited badness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I can't help thinking that their badness was more like the faults of a superior South Sea Islander than like the viler side of the 'crowd' to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is the badness. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The body, which is one thing, cannot be destroyed by food, which is another, unless the badness of the food is communicated to the body. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You might as well talk abstractly about the goodness or badness of this universe which contains happiness, pain, exhilaration and indifference in a thousand varying grades and quantities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

整理:米莉