defile

FREQ #29666

vt. 弄脏, 污损, 败坏 vi. 以纵队前进 n. 隘路, 狭道

发音

UK /dɪˈfaɪl/
其它
UK /ˈdiː-/
US /dəˈfaɪl/
US /ˈdiˌfaɪl/

词形变化

defiles 复数 defiles 三单 defiling 现在分词 defiled 过去式 defiled 过去分词

别名

defilé defilee défilé

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.

    比喻 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    An act of marching in files or lines.

    比喻 政治 军事
  3. 3.

    A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.

    比喻 政治 军事
  4. 1.

    An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.

    比喻 罕用 政治 军事
v.
  1. 1.

    To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.

    污秽

    及物
  2. 2.

    To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.

    及物

    To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.

  4. 4.

    To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.

    及物 宗教
  5. 5.

    To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.

    废旧 及物

    The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.

  6. 6.

    To dishonour (someone).

    废旧 及物
  7. 7.

    To become dirty or unclean.

    不及物 废旧
  8. 8.

    To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.

    不及物 废旧
  9. 1.

    To march in a single file or line; to file.

    古体 比喻 不及物 政治 军事
  10. 2.

    To march across (a place) in files or lines.

    比喻 废旧 及物 政治 军事
  11. 1.

    Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).

    比喻 罕用 及物 政治 军事

词汇关系

词源

PIE word *dwís The verb is borrowed from French défiler (“to march; to parade”), from dé- (prefix indicating actions are done more strongly or vigorously) + one or both of the following: * filer (“to thread through (a crowd)”) (from Late Latin filāre, from Latin fīlum (“fibre, filament, string, thread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-). * file (“line of objects placed one after the other, file”), from filer (see above), or fil (“thread, yarn; wire”), from Old French fil, from Latin fīlum (see above). The noun is borrowed from French défilé (“parade, procession”), a noun use of the past participle of défiler (verb); see above.

来源:wiktionary