| 词汇 | defiled |
| 释义 | defiled past simple and past participle ofdefile defile verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈfaɪl/ us /dɪˈfaɪl/ to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure: 玷污，亵渎，糟蹋 It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.这么美的地方竟然被一堆垃圾给糟蹋了，真是太可惜了。 The soldiers deliberately defiled all the holy places.士兵们故意亵渎各处神圣的场所。 Making things dirty & untidy blacken clutter clutter something up contaminate defile dirty mark mess mix mix someone/something up muddle muddle something up muss pollute polluter recontaminate soil stain tarnish the polluter pays principleidiom Related worddefilement Examples of defileddefiled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. However, at the same time as one's body is being defiled and perhaps broken, it is essential to struggle to keep one's mind pure, upright and alert. Law is defiled and belittled by this kind of free-range writing and scribbling on every feature of shopping that occurs to the parliamentary draftsman's mind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This century has been defiled by those who have behaved with barbarity towards their fellows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They thought, and often quite correctly, that the persons they were persecuting were a small minority, ignorant and defiled by many faults and infirmities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, if somebody committed adultery with a man's wife, he defiled that property and the husband was entitled to compensation for such defilement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We and the local authorities, with their defiled beaches, know just how common those discharges are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Beauty spot after beauty spot is being defiled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One finds some of our best beauty spots, particularly at holiday times, defiled by litter louts who leave their rubbish around. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How could we expect that boy to emerge from that place without being defiled in both body and character? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The land is left there, defiled, made dangerous and useless, because the company has gone bankrupt, it may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clean milk is provided, but it has to be poured out over the mouth of a bottle left outside the house and there defiled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Divorced or separated women may be considered to have "defiled" the honour of their families, and may face destitution or worse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There one may dump a substation down, if one can find the money, almost anywhere and the country is not defiled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a further view that it is wrong, as has been said, that the environment shall be defiled by pollution even if any regulations have been complied with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There you have great reserves and hunting areas as well, but, in spite of the facilities for access, the natural beauty and glory of those regions has not been defiled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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