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

• 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。
• 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。
• He had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
  他亵渎了这位神圣先知的圣名。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
  我要转面不看他们，让外人亵渎我的宝藏，让野人侵入而加以亵渎。
• If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water.
  如果男人对他的儿子订婚女友，且他的儿子已经与她发生关系，但是，他这个父亲却染指她，在被捕之后，则他会被五花大绑并扔进水中淹死。
• How can I defile this great gathering of court officials with the petty ways of a concubine?
  寡人怎能再用后宫女子的小节去玷污了庙堂大臣的大行呢？
• These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure.
  这些人未曾沾染妇女，他们原是童身。