词组 | defile |
释义 | defile When used with a prepositional phrase expressing means or agent, defile is followed by by or with; by occurs a little more frequently than with: • ... the academic institution ... suddenly defiled by the crude political demands of people unfit to pass through its gates —Jerome Karabel, Change, May 1972 • Now he saw why he had sanctified his body and refused to defile it with a woman —Sholem Asch, The Apostle, 1943 |
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