动词读作dɪˈfaɪl。名词读作ˈdiːfaɪl。
V-T To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive. 亵渎 [文学性]
He had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
他已经亵渎了神圣先知的圣名。
V to make foul or dirty; pollute 玷污; 弄脏
N-COUNT A defile is a very narrow valley or passage, usually through mountains. 山中狭径 [正式]
Nations come and go without defiling it.
民族来了,去了,都不能玷污它。
If someone dies suddenly in his presence, thus defiling the hair he has dedicated, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing-the seventh day.
若在他旁边忽然有人死了,以致沾染了他离俗的头,他要在第七日得洁净的时候剃头。
No one likes to have their property stolen. If we steal from others we are defiling the mind with greed.
没有任何人喜欢他们自己的东西被他人窃取,如果我们窃取其他人的东西,贪婪将会使得我们的心受到污染。
The defiling effect of lesser transgressions is calibrated to the sinner's intentionality and the presence or absence of repentance.
相对较轻的犯罪带来的亵渎影响,随罪人的犯罪动机,是否出席祭祀仪式和是否悔改而变化。
These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.
这些都在《利未记》十八章和二十章里讲清楚了,除了玷污人使人变得有罪,道德上的不洁从象征意义上玷污了各层圣所,尤其是最外面那层圣所,同时也玷污了上帝的名字,和“圣地“这个名字。
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