Defy
[dɪ'faɪ] or ['difaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) challenge; 'I dare you!'.
(verb.) resist or confront with resistance; 'The politician defied public opinion'; 'The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear'; 'The bridge held'.
(verb.) elude, especially in a baffling way; 'This behavior defies explanation'.
海勒姆手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
(v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
(n.) A challenge.
校對:马蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Challenge, dare, bid defiance to, hurl defiance at.[2]. Brave, disregard, slight, scorn, spurn, despise, contemn, treat with contempt, trample on, set at naught, snap the fingers at.
錄入:文斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Scorn, challenge, provoke, despite, brave,[See DARE]
錄入:曼蒂
解釋/意思:
v.t. to challenge: to brave: (obs.) to discard dislike:—pr.p. defy′ing; pa.p. defied′.—n. (Dryden) a defiance.—n. Defī′er.
霍奇編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Don't defy him! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I leave twenty pound a year to my valet; and I defy any man after I have gone to find anything against my character. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I spit at thee, and I defy thee. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A weed like the Russian thistle, for instance, will defy all usual means for its extermination. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I am ready to defy Issus herself; but what will it avail us? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I think, replied Edward, that I may defy many months to produce any good to me. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But the example of Sparta, and perhaps in some degree the tendency to defy public opinion, seems to have misled him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The powers they defied; But Heaven is just, and by a god they died. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Flesh or spirit must be defied for its sake. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Tarzan defied them all, and the thin, strong noose continued to settle about Tublat's neck whenever he least expected it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- How the dreadless Angel defied, resisted, and repelled? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To this mortal quarrel he has himself defied me, and I shall not forget the challenge. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage--with a stern triumph. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I am looked upon about here as a second Ajax defying the lightning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- How could he dream of her defying the barrier that her husband had placed between them? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He came back gay and self-satisfied, eager and busy, caring nothing for Miss Woodhouse, and defying Miss Smith. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Is it fair, is it worthy of yourself, to talk of my defying you afore ever you say what you want of me? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I hope everybody here will lead them to believe that I died defying them, consistently and perseveringly, as I did through so many years. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Others said the _Clermont_ appeared at night like a monster moving on the waters defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Stilbro' Moor, however, defies you, thank Heaven! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It not only defies explanation, it's even beyond conjecture. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Moreover it defies control. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:莱斯特