defy
英 [d?'fa?]
美['difa?]
- vt. 藐视；公然反抗；挑衅；使落空
- n. 挑战；对抗
实用场景例句
- I wouldn't have dared to defy my teachers.
- 我可不敢不听老师的话。
牛津词典
- Hundreds of people today defied the ban on political gatherings.
- 今天有数百人违抗禁止政治集会的规定。
牛津词典
- a political move that defies explanation
- 无法解释的政治举动
牛津词典
- The beauty of the scene defies description.
- 景色之美简直难以描绘。
牛津词典
- The baby boy defied all the odds and survived (= stayed alive when it seemed certain that he would die) .
- 这名男婴九死一生活了下来。
牛津词典
- I defy anyone not to cry at the end of the film.
- 我倒要看看有谁在电影结尾时不哭。
牛津词典
- The singer continues to defy her age by wearing the scantiest of outfits.
- 那名女歌手依旧穿着非常暴露的服装，完全不似她这把岁数。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension.
- 这种行为野蛮凶残、令人震惊，简直是不可理喻。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- When the flowers open in spring they fill the night air with a fragrance that defies description...
- 春天鲜花开放时，夜里的空气中会弥漫一种难以名状的香气。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He looked at me as if he was defying me to argue.
- 他看着我，仿佛在激我与他争论。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother...
- 这是我第一次(也是最后一次)胆敢反抗我的母亲。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Nearly eleven-thousand people have been arrested for defying the ban on street trading.
- 将近有1.1万人因为违抗禁止在街上摆摊交易的禁令而被捕。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I defy you to come up with one major accomplishment of the current Prime Minister...
- 我敢说你讲不出现任首相的哪怕一项重大成就。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Let them do their worst! ( I defy them to do their worse! )
- 让他们蛮干好 啦 ( 我不相信他们敢蛮干 )!
辞典例句
- The expansion of industry, communications and exchange will defy the imagination of past generations.
- 工业 、 交通和交换事业的发展,更是前人所不能设想的.
期刊摘选
- Time is finite and infinite. I defy the indefinite definition.
- 时间既是有限的又是无限的. 我公然对抗这个模糊的定义.
期刊摘选
- Conservatives would defy our efforts at bootstrap improvements.
- 保守派会蔑视我们从根本上变革的努力.
期刊摘选
- Just being with you feels like I can defy the whole world.
- 仅仅和你在在一起的感觉可以让我放弃全世界.
期刊摘选
- We defy them to saddle the blame on the miners.
- 我们抗议他们强迫矿工们接受指责.
期刊摘选
- They defy difficulties and advance wave upon wave.
- 他们不怕困难,前扑后继.
辞典例句
- 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 而无法精确定义的有机体.
期刊摘选
- The terrorists defy the government and successively practice the bombing activity.
- 恐怖组织蔑视政府,接连实施爆炸活动.
期刊摘选
- Neurological illnesses sometimes defy understanding, Dr. Lachance said and this seemed to be one of them.
- Lachance博士说,神经系统疾患有时让人费解, 这个病,好像就是其中一例.
期刊摘选
- The towering pine and cypress trees defy frost and snow.
- 松柏参天傲霜雪.
《简明英汉词典》
- I defy you to prove that I have cheated.
- 我敢说你不能证明我曾行骗.
辞典例句
- Death defy the doctor.
- 死亡不畏医生.
期刊摘选