| 词汇 | defying |
| 释义 | defying present participle ofdefy 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。 The 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 abjure abnegate abnegation bar bat something/someone away decline demur disavow gainsay miss a chance/opportunityidiom opt opt out pass on pass something up punt on something quit resistant sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom tear You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Opposing & against Examples of defyingdefying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. Leaving the arsenals meant defying state policy, as the worker went up against a barrage of government regulations designed to control the labor market. In defying formal agreement, writers may be using notional agreement to broaden the scope of their reference and their argument. They consolidated their power by occasionally defying the central government or playing off internal and external actors against each other. In other words, he is defying any other theory to squeeze out more normality from his exceptional examples than he has done. These four types differed by the dominant type of prescribed activity (' consumer-based' or ' producer-based') and ultimate outcome (' defying age ' or ' prudentially minimising age-related risks'). Defying such binary oppositions, we argue that these towns manifest powerful nationalist and persistent colonial segregation while actively resisting them. In short, it is a numerical way of defying the accountants. Semiotics is a large and complex field, defying easy summary. The authorities therefore might have to deal with 13,000 women defying the law. There was more to this treason, some element which, while never quite defying logic, nevertheless twisted it to suit a particular goal. Do you think there are plays that are defying the white critics' misreadings of the culturally unfamiliar? If a comrade were in serious trouble, they were sworn to help him out even if that meant defying their father or former master. Accepting the idea of local traits should not lead to ascribing such traits as in-a-hurry-compassion and defying-authority-compassion, but to ascribing such traits as compassion-defying-authority-in-the-presence-of-a-passive-bystanderwho-is-not-a-prior-acquaintance-when-not-in-a-hurry-and-where-theperson-in-need-of-help-is-not-an-acquaintance. Men, in contrast, enjoy the illegal income and activities for the sense of defying authority and getting away with it. 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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