名詞 mischief:

1. reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
   同義詞：mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan
2. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
   同義詞：maleficence, balefulness

1. Don't let her make mischief between you she's only jealous.
   別讓她在你們之間挑撥－－她就是太忌妒了。
2. I try to keep the boy out of mischief.
   我盡量不讓這個(gè)男孩胡鬧。
3. The wind played mischief with my papers.
   風(fēng)把我的文章吹得亂七八糟。

mis.chief

n.（名詞）
Behavior that causes discomfiture or annoyance in another.
惡作?。簩?dǎo)致他人不適或惱怒的行為
An inclination or a tendency to play pranks or cause embarrassment.
頑皮：喜歡惡作劇或?qū)е滤穗y堪的傾向或趨向
One that causes minor trouble or disturbance:
淘氣鬼：制造小麻煩或干擾的人：
例句：
The child was a mischief in school.
這孩子在學(xué)校是個(gè)淘氣鬼

Damage, destruction, or injury caused by a specific person or thing:
危害：由一個(gè)特定的人或物導(dǎo)致的損害、破壞或傷害：
例句：
The broken window was the mischief of vandals.
被打碎的窗戶是那些故意破壞公物人造成的

The state or quality of being mischievous.
頑皮：惡作劇、胡鬧的狀態(tài)或特性

來(lái)源：
Middle English mischef
中古英語(yǔ) mischef
from Old French meschief [misfortune]
源自 古法語(yǔ) meschief [壞運(yùn)氣]
from meschever [to end badly]
源自 meschever [糟糕地結(jié)束]
mes- [badly] * see mis-
mes- [糟糕地] *參見(jiàn) mis-
chever [to happen, come to an end] from Vulgar Latin *cap3re [to come to a head] from *capum [head] from Latin caput * see kaput-
chever [發(fā)生，結(jié)束] 源自 俗拉丁語(yǔ) *cap3re [到達(dá)緊要關(guān)頭] 源自 *capum [頭] 源自 拉丁語(yǔ) caput *參見(jiàn) kaput-