defy
英 [d?'fa?]
美['difa?]
- vt. 藐視；公然反抗；挑釁；使落空
- n. 挑戰；對抗
實用場景例句
- I wouldn't have dared to defy my teachers.
- 我可不敢不聽老師的話。
牛津詞典
- Hundreds of people today defied the ban on political gatherings.
- 今天有數百人違抗禁止政治集會的規定。
牛津詞典
- a political move that defies explanation
- 無法解釋的政治舉動
牛津詞典
- The beauty of the scene defies description.
- 景色之美簡直難以描繪。
牛津詞典
- The baby boy defied all the odds and survived (= stayed alive when it seemed certain that he would die) .
- 這名男嬰九死一生活了下來。
牛津詞典
- I defy anyone not to cry at the end of the film.
- 我倒要看看有誰在電影結尾時不哭。
牛津詞典
- The singer continues to defy her age by wearing the scantiest of outfits.
- 那名女歌手依舊穿著非常暴露的服裝，完全不似她這把歲數。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension.
- 這種行為野蠻兇殘、令人震驚，簡直是不可理喻。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- When the flowers open in spring they fill the night air with a fragrance that defies description...
- 春天鮮花開放時，夜里的空氣中會彌漫一種難以名狀的香氣。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- He looked at me as if he was defying me to argue.
- 他看著我，仿佛在激我與他爭論。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother...
- 這是我第一次(也是最后一次)膽敢反抗我的母親。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Nearly eleven-thousand people have been arrested for defying the ban on street trading.
- 將近有1.1萬人因為違抗禁止在街上擺攤交易的禁令而被捕。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I defy you to come up with one major accomplishment of the current Prime Minister...
- 我敢說你講不出現任首相的哪怕一項重大成就。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Let them do their worst! ( I defy them to do their worse! )
- 讓他們蠻干好 啦 ( 我不相信他們敢蠻干 )!
辭典例句
- The expansion of industry, communications and exchange will defy the imagination of past generations.
- 工業 、 交通和交換事業的發展,更是前人所不能設想的.
期刊摘選
- Time is finite and infinite. I defy the indefinite definition.
- 時間既是有限的又是無限的. 我公然對抗這個模糊的定義.
期刊摘選
- Conservatives would defy our efforts at bootstrap improvements.
- 保守派會蔑視我們從根本上變革的努力.
期刊摘選
- Just being with you feels like I can defy the whole world.
- 僅僅和你在在一起的感覺可以讓我放棄全世界.
期刊摘選
- We defy them to saddle the blame on the miners.
- 我們抗議他們強迫礦工們接受指責.
期刊摘選
- They defy difficulties and advance wave upon wave.
- 他們不怕困難,前撲后繼.
辭典例句
- Members of a group of mostly aquatic, photosynthetic organisms ( see photosynthesis ) that defy precise definition.
- 一群主要是水生的 、 能行 光合作用 而無法精確定義的有機體.
期刊摘選
- The terrorists defy the government and successively practice the bombing activity.
- 恐怖組織蔑視政府,接連實施爆炸活動.
期刊摘選
- Neurological illnesses sometimes defy understanding, Dr. Lachance said and this seemed to be one of them.
- Lachance博士說,神經系統疾患有時讓人費解, 這個病,好像就是其中一例.
期刊摘選
- The towering pine and cypress trees defy frost and snow.
- 松柏參天傲霜雪.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- I defy you to prove that I have cheated.
- 我敢說你不能證明我曾行騙.
辭典例句
- Death defy the doctor.
- 死亡不畏醫生.
期刊摘選