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

• Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
  我必使外邦人，就是列国中的强暴人临到你这里。他们必拔刀砍坏你用智慧得来的美物，亵渎你的荣光。
• The troops had to defile through the pass.
  部队只得排成单列通过关口。
• Nevertheless in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh and despise lordship and revile dignities.
  8然而，这些作梦的人，还是照样玷污肉体，轻慢主治者，毁谤在尊位的。
• And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
  所以我要使偶像成为他们的不洁之物，我要把它交于外邦人手中作胜利品，给本地匪徒作为掠物，而予以亵渎。
• 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。
• Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of israel.
  你们不可玷污所住之地，就是我住在其中之地，因为我耶和华住在以色列人中间。
• People saw soldiers in the defile.
  人们在隘道看到了很多士兵。
• 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。
• You think I wanted to defile her that way?
  你认为我会这么糟塌她？
• Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth;
  你雕刻偶像所包的银子和铸造偶像所镀的金子，你要玷污，要抛弃，好象污秽之物；