| 词汇 | defy |
| 释义 | defy verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈfaɪ/ us /dɪˈfaɪ/ C2 to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: 对抗;违抗;反抗 It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers.很少看见孩子公然跟老师作对。 A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.几个工人不顾大多数人的罢工决定自己去上工了。 defy the lawThe fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.我总认为飞机没有从天上掉下来，是不符合万有引力定律的。 A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.尽管采取了各种措施，加利福尼亚南部的一场森林大火依然在肆虐。 to disagree with something by speaking or fighting against it opposeVillagers opposed plans to widen the carriageway. objectNo one objected to the decision. defyA few workers defied the decision to strike and went in to work. speak out againstMore and more people are speaking out against this unpopular law. stand out againstMore people are standing out against the corruption of the local government. declare againstUKShe declared against the new airport. defy belief/description/explanation C2 to be extreme or very strange and therefore impossible to believe, describe, or explain: （因过于极端或奇特而）让人无法相信／描述／解释 The chaos at the airport defies description.机场一片混乱，难以用语言形容。 defy someone to do something to tell someone to do something that you think will be impossible: 激，惹;向…挑战; I defy you to prove your accusations.我倒要看看你能不能拿出证据来证实你的指控。 The mess in Bart's room defies description! His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.他奇迹般地康复了，所有的医学预测不攻自破。 In 1970 he defied the three-line whip against EC membership. They defied convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient. Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.汤姆‧克鲁斯不顾专业人员的警告，在《碟中谍2》中亲自表演自己角色的特技动作。 Refusing & rejecting abjuration abnegate abnegation bar bat something/someone away decline disavow gainsay oppositional opt opt out pass on pass something up punt on something rebel refuse sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom tear wash your hands of somethingidiom would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Opposing & against defy | American Dictionarydefy verb[ T ] us/dɪˈfɑɪ/ to refuse to obey or to do something in the usual or expected way: They defied an evacuation order and stayed in town during the hurricane. He defied the odds (= did what no one expected) and won the race for mayor. defiantadjectiveus/dɪˈfɑɪ·ənt/ She is defiant, angry, and tough. defiantlyadverbus/dɪˈfɑɪ·ənt·li/ When I said she might fail, she replied defiantly, “No, I won’t!” Examples of defydefy It is when a phenomenon defies understanding that it 'announces' itself, and stands out from the background, requiring interpretation. Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives. And, finally, there are those - the truly problematic cases - which defy exclusive classification. In contrast, signatures that result from recombination between ribosomal variants leave traces that defy any phylogenetic hypothesis. Counteracting the conduct-book-like prescriptions of their words, the performative force of the female voice undoes the drama and defies its constraining messages. Plus most women on death row, like their male counterparts, have complex, dysfunctional lives, and so defy easy categorisation. His book effortlessly and purposefully defies the false dichotomy between a cultural studies approach and a historical one. Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity. Those who support a democratic regime do not have to defy traditional authority relations within the family or in the workplace. The changes that have taken place have been so many and so large that they defy many of the tools of marginal analysis. This is an emotional truth which often seems to defy the interpretations of archaeologists, historians or anthropologists. This productive energy seems to defy any efforts to curtail or constrain it. Among historians and sociologists of science, it is a commonplace that scientists' accusations of plagiarism defy straightforward explanations. The ' emergence' of the factors of interest should surely be shown as a rational and replicable process, not presented as alchemy that defies explanation. By the same token, politicians who choose restrictive fiscal and monetary policies over more expansionary alternatives are not necessarily defying the laws of political gravity. See all examples of defy 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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