Sully
['sʌlɪ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) French statesman (1560-1641).
(noun.) United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872).
整理:罗莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
(v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
(n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
卡莱尔編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Soil, stain, tarnish, spot, blemish, dirty, contaminate.
德威特編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Soil, efface, dirty, taint, tarnish, spot, stain, spoil, disgrace, dishonor
ANT:Purify, cleanse, ennoble, dignify, signalize, glorify, honor
整理:胡安妮塔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to soil: to spot: to tarnish.—v.i. to be soiled:—pa.t. and pa.p. sull′ied.—n. spot: tarnish.
錄入:莫拉
例句/造句/用法:
- As Morse had said when he first began seriously to study the subject on board the _Sully_, If it will go ten miles without stopping I can make it go around the globe. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I shall sully the purity of your floor, said he, but you must excuse me for once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I dare you to sully our name by a _mésalliance_! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower--breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The novelist may be excused from sullying his page with the record of their deeds. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Death itself, like the illimitable space, is beyond our sullying. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
錄入:莉娜