详细用法
动词用法:
- Sully someone’s reputation: 玷污某人的声誉
- Sully someone’s name: 毁损某人的名誉
- Sully someone’s character: 损害某人的品格
- Sully someone’s image: 玷污某人的形象
- Sully someone’s integrity: 损害某人的正直
- Sully someone’s honor: 玷污某人的荣誉
- Sully someone’s innocence: 玷污某人的清白
- Sully someone’s memory: 玷污某人的记忆
- Sully someone’s reputation with false accusations: 以虚假指控玷污某人的声誉
名词用法:
- A sullied reputation: 受污名的声誉
- A sullied name: 受毁名誉
- A sullied character: 受损品格
- A sullied image: 受玷污的形象
- A sullied integrity: 受损的正直
- A sullied honor: 受污名的荣誉
其他用法:
- To sully one’s own reputation: 玷污自己的声誉
- To sully the truth: 玷污事实真相
- To sully the environment: 污染环境
- To sully a clean record: 玷污清白记录
- To sully the beauty of nature: 破坏大自然的美丽
深度学习
sully (SUL lee) From the Old French word souiller, which means “to soil,” this verb also can be used to describe both physical dirtying or more figura-tive tainting or corrupting. The adjective form is “sullied.”
- Thanksgiving dinner was delicious, but the turkey was sullied by gravy that was way too salty.
- We spilled so much gravy and coffee on the tablecloth that Bill had to wash all of the sullied linens immediately before the stains set in.
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
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sully(SUL lee)来自古法语单词souiller,意为“土壤”,这个动词也可以用来描述物理上的污染或更形象的污染或腐败。形容词的形式是“玷污”
感恩节晚餐很美味,但火鸡被太咸的肉汁弄脏了。
我们在桌布上洒了太多的肉汁和咖啡,以至于比尔不得不在污渍形成之前立即清洗所有被弄脏的亚麻布。
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