Early in the spring this bird of many names and many voices makes itself known by a long, strong, sonorous call, a sort of proclamation that differs from its song proper, which Audubon. calls "a prolonged jovial laugh" (described by Mrs. Wright as "Wick, wick, wick, wick!") and differs also from its rapidly repeated, mellow, and most musical cub, cub, cub, cub, cub, uttered during the nesting season.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
It had to follow thence [from this dogma] that they did [must do] penance only for actual sins such as wicked thoughts to which a person yields (for wicked emotion [concupiscence, vicious feelings, and inclinations], lust and improper dispositions [according to them] are not sins ), and for wicked words and wicked deeds, which free will could readily have omitted.英文原著 · 《The Smalcald Articles》
You may imagine the feelings of the wicked King, as he sat on his throne, with the Queen beside him and all his Court around, and saw, acted on the stage, the very wickedness that he had himself done. And when, in the play, the wicked relation poured poison into the ear of the sleeping man, the wicked Claudius suddenly rose, and staggered from the room--the Queen and others following.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
Wicked woman! You are lost; and he--your master--you can never, never go back to him."
Amrah grovelled sobbing in the dust. "The ban of the Law is upon you, too; you cannot return to Jerusalem. What will become of us? Who will bring us bread? O wicked, wicked Amrah! We are all, all undone alike!"
"Mercy, mercy!" Amrah answered from the ground. "You should have been merciful to yourself, and by so doing been most merciful to us.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
We think of a wicked man as vigilant. We can't think of a wicked man who is honestly and sincerely dreamy, because we daren't think of a wicked man alone with himself. An absentminded man means a good-natured man. It means a man who, if he happens to see you, will apologise. But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Thursday》
"Why did he ever bring me into the world?" exclaimed the young man suddenly. "It was wicked--wicked-- terribly cruel and wicked."英文原著 · 《The Monster Men》
I know you two have had your problems-- capped off by that wicked J-Block you put on him.美剧 · 《Billions》
Well. Let me see: he was always broke, hounded by his creditors, had a wicked case of syphilis and liked to marry teenagers.美剧 · 《Billions》
Most of the bad shit that happens in this world isn't because of wicked plots and machinations.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Yeah, when we first joined, We used to sit around in wicker chairs, - Drinking margaritas and just looked at the flowers. - Oh, I'd kill for a margarita.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》