tarnish
tarnish 英 [ˈtɑ:nɪʃ] 美 [ˈtɑrnɪʃ]
n. 晦暗，无光泽；污点 vt. 玷污；使……失去光泽；使……变灰暗 vi. 失去光泽；被玷污；变灰暗
进行时:tarnishing 过去式:tarnished 过去分词:tarnished 第三人称单数:tarnishes 名词复数:tarnishes
- To tarnish is to become dull or discolored. Silver tends to tarnish easily, which is why your mother is always having you polish the family silver.
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- n. 晦暗，无光泽；污点
- vt. 玷污；使……失去光泽；使……变灰暗
- vi. 失去光泽；被玷污；变灰暗
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1. This is one of the few African countries that have escaped civil war and ethnic violence, but some Tanzanians now wonder if their tradition of harmony will be tarnish ed.
坦桑尼亚是非洲少数几个没有内战和种族冲突的国家之一，但是一些坦桑尼亚人现在想知道他们和睦的传统是否会被玷污。
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2. They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war.
他们要玷污我的名誉，损害我的廉正，我的立场，我在和平或者战争时期为埃及和埃及人民努力奋斗的政治生涯和军事生涯。
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3. He explains that the humid climate makes silver tarnish too quickly; it needs too much polishing.
铃木解释道，潮湿的气候会让银子很快失去光泽；需要大量的抛光。
- tarnish (n.) 1713, from tarnish (v.).
- tarnish (v.) mid-15c. (transitive), from present participle stem of Middle French ternir "dull the luster or brightness of, make dim" (15c.), probably from Old French terne (adj.) "dull, dark," which according to Diez is from a Germanic source cognate with Old High German tarnjan "to conceal, hide," Old English dyrnan "to hide, darken," from Proto-Germanic *darnjaz (see dern), but there are difficulties of form, sense, and date. Intransitive sense from 1670s. Figurative sense is from 1690s. Related: Tarnished; tarnishing.
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