defile
defile 英 [dɪˈfaɪl] 美 [dɪˈfaɪl]
vt. 污损，弄脏；染污
进行时:defiling 过去式:defiled 过去分词:defiled 第三人称单数:defiles 名词复数:defiles
- When you defile something, you make it dirty or make it lose its purity. Think of fresh new snow covered in cigarette butts. The butts defile the winter wonderland.
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- vt. 污损，弄脏；染污
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1. They that touch pitch will be defiled.
近墨者黑。
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2. Rivers are often defiled by waste from factories.
河水常被工厂中的废物污染。
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3. I'd rather die than allow you to defile the Church.
我宁愿死也不会让你玷污教会。
- defile (n.) "narrow passage," 1640s, especially in a military sense, "a narrow passage down which troops can march only in single file," from French défilé, noun use of past participle of défiler "march by files" (17c.), from de- "off" (see de-) + file "row," from Latin filum "thread" (from PIE root *gwhi- "thread, tendon"). The verb in this sense is 1705, from French défiler.
- defile (v.) c. 1400, "to desecrate, profane;" mid-15c., "to make foul or dirty," alteration of earlier defoulen, from Old French defouler "trample down, violate," also "ill-treat, dishonor," from de- "down" (see de-) + foler "to tread," from Latin fullo "person who cleans and thickens cloth by stamping on it" (see foil (v.)).
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