Defeat
[dɪ'fiːt] or [dɪ'fit]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; 'it was a narrow defeat'; 'the army's only defeat'; 'they suffered a convincing licking'.
贝妮塔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
(v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
(v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
(v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
(v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
(v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
編輯:希娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Overthrow, downfall, rout, discomfiture, repulse.[2]. Frustration.
v. a. [1]. Conquer, overthrow, overcome, vanquish, checkmate, repulse, beat, discomfit, rout.[2]. Frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, disconcert, disappoint.
錄入:保拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Conquer, overcome, worst, beat, baffle, rout, overthrow, vanquish, frustrate,foil
ANT:Secure, promote, insure, speed, advance, establish, aid
SYN:Frustration, overthrow, discomfiture
ANT:Victory, triumph, success
校對:菲利斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to frustrate: to ruin.—n. a frustration of plans: ruin: overthrow as of an army in battle.—n. Defeat′ure (Spens.) defeat: disfigurement disguise.
校對:奥利弗
例句/造句/用法:
- The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- What is defeat? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Even now she would not own defeat. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I must be my own mamma, said Rebecca; not without a tingling consciousness of defeat, as she thought over her little misadventure with Jos Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Evidently he did not relish the thought that Issus had learned of his inglorious defeat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The frightened slaves about her trembled in wide-eyed expectancy, knowing not whether to pray for our victory or our defeat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- After several severe skirmishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden, which he occupied about the middle of April. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He returned to France after Sedan, and flung himself into the stormy politics of the defeated nation with great fire and vigour. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I replied, half defeated already, that I wished to speak to himself only if he would give me leave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- By this, however, the enemy was defeated in his designs upon Sherman's line of communications. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He met the enemy on the 5th of June at Piedmont, and defeated him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Undismayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Consequently it defeats its own professed purpose. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But though the insurgents experienced defeats and looting, neither of these generals brought the war to an end. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Consequently an attempt to train for too specific a mode of efficiency defeats its own purpose. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You might say that genius works inductively and finds a method; the conservative works deductively from the method and defeats whatever genius he may have. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A pair of boot lacings, returned Jo, guessing and defeating his purpose. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Still, your mode of defeating Caliphronas is hardly English. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Filibustering and delay in the counting of the votes are often the only means we have of defeating bad legislation. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The Scotch were then awakened and succeeded in defeating their assailants. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A lamp so constructed and made before 1872 was worth a large sum of money to those interested in defeating the Edison patent like the American Company, and Goebel was not a rich man. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- On the 31st, General Wilson's division of cavalry destroyed the railroad bridges over the South Anna River, after defeating the enemy's cavalry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
手打:朱迪