| 词汇 | example_english_defy |
| 释义 | Examples of defyThese 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. 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. Ill-structured problems tend to produce ' dialogues of the deaf' that can defy resolution for long periods. First, they defied the carefully regulated life of mission converts who, under missionary supervision, went through a number of stages : probation, baptism, church membership, leadership. Jacobean policymaking was a fluid process that defies simple characterization while operative norms changed during the reign. For all of the musicians surveyed here, folk music constitutes a fluid tradition which defies categorisation and adapts to very different circumstances. Since the resultant optic flow fields defy easy analysis, the two components must be separated before the information in each field can be extracted. His arguments defy collegial courtesy, exaggerating the trivial and making distorted or erroneous assertions. It is a social concept that defies rigid definition, yet is helpful as both a normative, aspirational guide and a term for describing our behaviour. His "heroes" will continually offer resistance to authorial reification, they will invariably defy their author's assumed transgradience. 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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