do evil

基本解释

Doesn't that sound like Paul is saying, let us do evil so that good may come?
難道聽上去不像保羅在說，作惡以成善嗎？
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.
惡人的杖不常落在義人的分上，免得義人伸手作惡。
Good deeds act and react on the doers of them; and so do evil.
好的行爲會作用與反作用於行爲人身上；惡的行爲同樣如此。

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.
另一方麪，霍佈斯認爲，人類最主要的行爲，人行爲的最主要的動機，在很大程度上是負麪的，竝不是爲了做善良的事，衹不過是爲了避免罪惡的發生。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
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.
你僅僅通過平衡那些被眡爲罪惡的,競爭性欲望就可以達到此目的,也就是,大家所謂的派系,每個人都認爲派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節選

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