| 词汇 | despoil |
| 释义 | despoil verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈspɔɪl/ us /dɪˈspɔɪl/ to make a place less attractive especially by taking things away from it by force: （尤指掠夺性地）破坏，洗劫 Many of the tombs had been despoiled.这些坟墓中有很多都遭到了洗劫。 Synonym pillageformal 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 despoildespoil We are eating ourselves out of house and home and despoiling our nest into the bargain. The current semantic difference in songhay-zarma between kom-yan (to despoil) and zey-yan (to rob) might be elucidating. Let us keep the beast in chains and not allow it to wander at will and despoil each earthly paradise as it chooses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody would suggest that we should be careless, despoil the land and interfere with amenities which ought to be properly safeguarded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor should the despoiled citizen place too much reliance on having the wind tempered by a financial hardship tribunal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that because anyone who despoils the countryside does not deliver environmental enhancement qualities to the countryside and will not be an efficient farmer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my constituency there are fourteenth century churches of great architectural value which are suffering from mining subsidence and are badly despoiled and depreciated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot see the force of the arguments that our countryside has already been despoiled in other ages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Increased access to a landscape which is despoiled, degraded, diminished and damaged offers nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot continue despoiling the best parts of the country purely to extract sand and gravel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But this does not mean that land is being despoiled at that rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We will defeat the scourge of our society: the criminals who despoil our quality of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about vandals, although some of the environmentalists would suggest that foresters are despoiling the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of sport, for example, television's influence has been to drag down, to despoil, rather than to raise in quality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there is a great public resentment of heavy lorries, which pass through villages and despoil urban areas. 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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