defile

英 [dɪˈfaɪl]

美 [dɪˈfaɪl]

v.  弄脏; 玷污; 糟蹋; 亵渎
n.  山中狭径

过去分词：defiled　过去式：defiled　现在分词：defiling　第三人称单数：defiles　复数：defiles　

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BNC.22172 / COCA.22173

牛津词典

verb

• 弄脏；玷污；糟蹋；亵渎
  to make sth dirty or no longer pure, especially sth that people consider important or holy
  1. Many victims of burglary feel their homes have been defiled.
     许多家门被撬的人都感到自己的家被玷污了。
  2. The altar had been defiled by vandals.
     圣坛受到破坏公物者的肆意践踏。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 污损;玷污;亵渎
  Todefilesomething that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
  1. He had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
     他亵渎了这位神圣先知的圣名。
• (通常指山中的)峡谷，峡道，隘路
  Adefileis a very narrow valley or passage, usually through mountains.

英英释义

noun

• a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  Synonym:gorge

verb

• spot, stain, or pollute
  1. The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it
  Synonym:foulbefoulmaculate
• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
  1. The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air
  2. Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man
  Synonym:tarnishstainmaculatesully
• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
  1. sully someone's reputation
  Synonym:sullycorrupttaintcloud

双语例句

• These freaks are willing to defile themselves for mass entertainment.
  这些人为了大众娱乐宁可毁了自己。
• Who are these men who defile the grassy borders of our roads and lanes.
  是谁污损了我们大路和小路两旁的草坪。
• So he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the lord, who makes him holy.
  不可在民中辱没他的儿女，因为我是叫他成圣的耶和华。
• The troops had to defile through the pass.
  部队只得排成单列通过关口。
• These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
  这都是污秽人的。至于不洗手吃饭、那却不污秽人。
• You think I wanted to defile her that way?
  你认为我会这么糟塌她？
• This is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world, and where extremists who defile a great religion plan attacks on both our continents.
  在这里，核武器竞赛的危险威胁着整个世界的安全。在这里，玷污了一个伟大宗教的极端主义分子试图策划对我们两个大洲发动袭击。
• He will keep our feet from falling so that we do not defile our garments, wound our souls, and cause the enemy to blaspheme.
  祂将保守我们不失脚，不致沾污我们的衣袍，亏损我们的灵魂，不让仇敌有亵渎我们的机会。
• And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
  免得你们玷污那地的时候，地就把你们吐出，像吐出在你们以先的国民一样。
• But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
  竟把可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中，污秽了这殿。