do evil

基本解释

Doesn't that sound like Paul is saying, let us do evil so that good may come?
难道听上去不像保罗在说，作恶以成善吗？
The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.
恶人的杖不常落在义人的分上，免得义人伸手作恶。
Good deeds act and react on the doers of them; and so do evil.
好的行为会作用与反作用于行为人身上；恶的行为同样如此。

But the man and woman do not believe in the evil eye, that a person can harm you by looking at you.
Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.
另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。
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You can only do that by balancing competitive desires that can be thought of as evil; faction was what they were talking about and everybody thought faction was bad, but it was inevitable.
你仅仅通过平衡那些被视为罪恶的,竞争性欲望就可以达到此目的,也就是,大家所谓的派系,每个人都认为派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的
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Meanwhile, the Pinochet arrest marks a modest step towards the sort of world in which powerful people think twice before they do evil.
ECONOMIST: It was right