abet, go after, aiding and abetting, fiend, biografiend: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.

Did you know JS Bach was a coffee fiend? He even wrote a caffeinated cantata...

The theory that regular cigarette smoking invariably turned the user homicidal was so widespread that it became a regular part of the insanity defense.

In the 1900s, Being a 'Cigarette Fiend' Was a Legitimate Defense for Murder

Smoking kills.

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喬 伊 斯 則 謔 稱 biographer （ 傳 記 家 ） 為 biografiend（ 傳 記 鬼 ） 。

In a speech to a joint session of Congress, Bush said the evidence the United States has gathered all points to bin Laden's organization as responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington and that by "aiding and abetting murder, the Taliban regime is committing murder."

《還鄉》是托馬斯·哈代最有影響力的作品之一，以埃格頓荒野為中心，這是一片荒涼、鬧鬼的威塞克斯荒原，D.H.勞倫斯稱之為「真正的悲劇」。荒野面貌的變化反映了小說中農民、旅館老闆、兒子、母親和戀人的命運。這位「本地人」名叫克萊姆·約布賴特 (Clym Yeobright)，他剛結束了在巴黎的國際生活。他;他的表弟托馬辛；她的未婚夫 Damon Wildeve；和任性的尤斯塔西婭·維伊是這個注定失敗的愛情、激情、疏離和憂鬱故事的主角，哈代在他的整個小說中巧妙地探索了這個熟悉的主題：機遇在決定人生歷程中所起的邪惡作用。

正如亞歷山大·索魯在序言中所說，哈代「致力於深刻表達（大自然）對人類的諷刺性混亂和奇怪的冷漠，甚至敵意」。

The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) Paperback – 2001年 2月 13日

作者 Thomas Hardy (Author), Alexander Theroux (Contributor)

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.

diabolical
/ˌdʌɪəˈbɒlɪkl/

adjective
1.
characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil.
"his diabolical cunning"

Similar:
devilish


diabolic


fiendish


satanic


Mephistophelian


demonic


demoniacal


hellish


infernal


evil


wicked


ungodly


unholy


cacodemonic


2.
informal•British
disgracefully bad or unpleasant.
"a singer with an absolutely diabolical voice"

Similar:
very bad


poor


dreadful


Line breaks: abet

Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt/

Definition of abet in English:

verb (abets, abetting, abetted)

[WITH OBJECT]

1Encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime:he was not guilty of murder, but guilty of aiding and abetting others

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESSYNONYMS

1.1Encourage or assist someone to commit (a crime):we are aiding and abetting this illegal traffic

Aiding and abetting 指示並教唆

go after

Pursue, try to get, as in The officer went after the burglar; or Ed was going after a new job with a vengeance. [Mid-1400s]



fiend
n.

1. 1. An evil spirit; a demon.
   2. The Devil; Satan.
   3. A diabolically evil or wicked person.
2. Informal. One who is addicted to something: a dope fiend.
3. Informal. One who is completely absorbed in or obsessed with a given job or pastime: a crossword-puzzle fiend.
4. Informal. One who is particularly adept at something: a fiend with computers.

[Middle English, from Old English fēond.]