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

• Thus it is said, for one to attack ten, nothing is better than a narrow defile.
  所以，以一击十，没有比利用狭隘地形更好的；
• 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。
• 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 had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
  他亵渎了这位神圣先知的圣名。
• And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.
  7他对他们说：要污秽这殿，使院中充满被杀的人。你们出去罢！
• Cenarius: Who dares defile this ancient land? Who dares the wrath of Cenarius and the night elves?
  塞纳留斯：是谁胆敢玷污这片陈旧的地盘？是谁胆敢触怒塞纳留斯和暗夜精灵？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。