showing a deliberate and determined desire to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable 执拗的;任性的;不通情理的 a perverse decision (= one that most people do not expect and think is wrong) 悖谬的决定 She finds a perverse pleasure in upsetting her parents. 她让父母担惊受怕,从任性中得到快乐。 Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse? 你是真要那样,还是故意作对? For some perverse reason he is refusing to see a doctor. 他太固执,拒不去看病。 It would be perverse to quit now that we’re almost finished. 我们就快完工了,现在要退出,未免太任性了。 This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse. 这种推理极不符合常理。
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘turned away from what is right or good’): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus ‘turned about’, from the verb pervertere, from per- ‘thoroughly, to ill effect’ + vertere ‘to turn’.