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 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。
• Take heed, therefore, and defile not with all kinds of abominations the temple of your bodies.
  因此，小心不要让所有的讨厌之物污染了你们身体的庙宇。
• 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；
• 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 he saith unto them, are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
  耶稣对他们说，你们也是这样不明白吗。岂不晓得凡从外面进入的，不能污秽人。
• People saw soldiers in the defile.
  人们在隘道看到了很多士兵。
• If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
  你若为我筑一座石坛，不可用凿成的石头，因你在上头一动家具，就把坛污秽了。
• 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。
• He had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
  他亵渎了这位神圣先知的圣名。
• 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。