Transgress
[trænz'gres;trɑːnz-;-ns-] or [trænz'ɡrɛs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) pass beyond (limits or boundaries).
(verb.) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; 'offend all laws of humanity'; 'violate the basic laws or human civilization'; 'break a law'; 'break a promise'.
(verb.) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; 'The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island'.
錄入:李莉斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
(v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
(v. t.) To offend against; to vex.
(v. i.) To offend against the law; to sin.
康拉德編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Exceed, transcend, pass, overstop, overpass, go beyond, pass over.[2]. Disobey, infringe, break, contravene, set at nought.
編輯:罗伊
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Break, violate, pass, disobey, contravene, sin, offend, infringe, trespass
ANT:Observe, keep, obey, fulfil, respect
艾达整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pass beyond a limit: to break as a law.—v.i. to offend by violating a law: to sin.—adj. Transgres′sible.—n. Transgres′sion the act of transgressing: violation of a law or command: offence: fault: crime: sin.—adjs. Transgres′sional; Transgres′sive.—adv. Transgres′sively.—n. Transgres′sor one who transgresses: one who violates a law or command: a sinner.
編輯:波西亚
例句/造句/用法:
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As the rules of order and pressure of laws were lost, some began with hesitation and wonder to transgress the accustomed uses of society. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Their creation myth proclaims: Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is more than time for retirement, said Madame; the rule of the house has already been transgressed too long. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax's feelings to Frank Churchill. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- We all promised faithfully, Richard with a merry glance at me touching his pocket as if to remind me that there was no danger of OUR transgressing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Each doing his own part, and never transgressing, the order and unity of the whole would be maintained. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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