► 名詞
悪 [(1)あく] [liter] meaning: bad rank: 1
☆ あの子はもう善悪の区別が付いて良い年だ ⇨ The kid is old enough to know the difference between good and bad (☛ Moral bad)
悪 [(1)あく] [liter] meaning: evil rank: 1
☆ 悪の帝国 ⇨ An evil empire
悪 [(1)わる] [coll] meaning: bad person rank: 2
☆ あいつは若い頃はワルだった ⇨ He was bad when he was young (☛ Usually a young delinquent, not to the level of serious criminals)
More examples:
- あいつは態度が悪い ⇨ That guy has bad attitudes
- 悪銭身に付かず ⇨ Bad money won’t stay with you. Easy come, easy go
- あいつは悪知恵だけは働く ⇨ He has ingenuity only for evil things
- 新しい法案は現行法を改悪する ⇨ The new bill change the current law for worse
- 販売成績の悪い製品 ⇨ A product with bad sales performance
- どうも今日は気分が悪い ⇨ I feel sick today for some reason
- この道具はどうも勝手が悪い ⇨ This tool is hard to use
- 私だけが欠席したのでは体裁が悪い ⇨ I look bad if I am the only one who is absent
- 彼は姿勢が悪い ⇨ He has a bad posture
- 彼は取っ付きは悪いが良い人だ ⇨ He is a nice person even though he looks unapproachable
- 膝の動きが悪い ⇨ My knees won’t move, bend, well
- 彼は店員に散々悪態をついた ⇨ He cursed on and on at the clerk
- 悪人が幅を利かす社会 ⇨ The society that bad people have power
- 彼は学生の時からの悪友だ ⇨ He is my bad buddy, an accomplice, since school days
- 彼は女の子に悪戯をして逮捕された ⇨ He was arrested for molesting a little girl