| 词汇 | desecration |
| 释义 | desecration noun[ U ] uk /ˌdes.ɪˈkreɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdes.əˈkreɪ.ʃən/ the action of damaging or showing no respect towards something holy or very much respected: 亵渎，玷污 desecration ofPeople were horrified at the desecration of the cemetery.人们对亵渎公墓的行为感到震惊。 Desecration of sacred sites and objects was widespread.亵渎圣地和圣物的现象很普遍。 See desecrate He dedicated himself to preventing further desecration of the Florida landscape. There are still reports of vandalism and desecration of synagogues. He had been buried at an undisclosed location in the cemetery to prevent desecration of his grave. Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher dry rot eat eat away at something erode flaw foul queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage ravages seismic sour wreck Examples of desecrationdesecration This is perhaps similar to our example of a radical environmentalist who prefers wilderness preservation to desecration to compromise development. Impervious to any hint of desecration or betrayal, this new, conscious modelhood suggests a good deal more than mere passive availability to vision. To stress the obvious, to take someone's liver from their body does not in any way amount to a desecration, when done for transplant purposes. Even nonbelievers will say that grave desecrations affront our sense of common humanness. Both rural and urban committees, however, were fairly timid in making decisions, fearful of the potential for desecration of controversial edifices, and anxious to provide an appearance of working-class participation. That point might seem obvious, but this is one of those moments where the reader might have wanted more details, especially about the desecration of sacred sites. Unlike his radically paranoid father, he leaves his body and name open to all sorts of violations and desecrations in order to enact a judgment, not a curse. The vandalism and desecration of play equipment shown in photograph after photograph was soul-destroying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must aim not at suppressing legitimate advertising, but at controlling it and preventing the disfigurement of city areas, and the desecration of the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not speaking of development but of commercial exploitation or sheer desecration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not consider that such commercial exploitation of religion is a desecration of it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They put the taxation of capital on the same footing as the desecration of a holy relic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The desecration point has been overstated by the objectors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer particularly to the horrible desecration of an important building in my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely we must devise some means not only of preventing this desecration of the countryside but of turning this metal to better use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of desecration 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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