defile
defile 英 [dɪˈfaɪl] 美 [dɪˈfaɪl]
vt. 污损,弄脏;染污 n. 狭谷;隘路 vi. 以纵队前进
进行时:defiling 过去式:defiled 过去分词:defiled 第三人称单数:defiles 名词复数:defiles
- When you defile something, you make it dirty or make it lose its purity. Think of fresh new snow covered in cigarette butts. The butts defile the winter wonderland.
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- vt. 污损,弄脏;染污
- n. 狭谷;隘路
- vi. 以纵队前进
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1. All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
这一切的恶,都是从里面出来,且能污秽人。
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2. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.
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。
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3. In very severe cases, it can even defile some common objects, and in those cases, the source of impurity might have to be isolated or excluded if necessary.
在一些非常严峻的情况中,它会玷污一些普通的事物,在这种时候,不洁之源,也许只能被孤立,严重的话需要驱逐。
- defile (n.) "narrow passage," 1640s, especially in a military sense, "a narrow passage down which troops can march only in single file," from French défilé, noun use of past participle of défiler "march by files" (17c.), from de- "off" (see de-) + file "row," from Latin filum "thread" (from PIE root *gwhi- "thread, tendon"). The verb in this sense is 1705, from French défiler.
- defile (v.) c. 1400, "to desecrate, profane;" mid-15c., "to make foul or dirty," alteration of earlier defoulen, from Old French defouler "trample down, violate," also "ill-treat, dishonor," from de- "down" (see de-) + foler "to tread," from Latin fullo "person who cleans and thickens cloth by stamping on it" (see foil (v.)).
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