sadist: [19] The terms sadist and sadism commemorate the so-called Marquis de Sade (in fact he was a count), the French writer who lived between 1740 and 1815. Towards the end of the 18th century he produced several pornographic novels, whose theme of sexual gratification through (among other things) the inflicting of pain led in the late 19th century to the use of his name by psychiatrists to describe such behaviour. By the 1930s sadism had become a general term for ‘gratuitous cruelty’.
sadist (n.)
1892, from sadism + -ist.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The man was a sadist who tortured animals and people.
那個(gè)男人是個(gè)施虐狂，喜歡虐待動(dòng)物和人。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. He acted a sadist in that TV play.
他在那電視劇中演一個(gè)施虐狂.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
3. After all, Clinton was only a minor - league sadist.
畢竟, 克林頓只是有一點(diǎn)小小的虐待傾向.
來(lái)自電影對(duì)白
4. However as far as we know, he was not a sadist.