sullied

英 [ˈsʌlid]

美 [ˈsʌlid]

v.  败坏; 有损于; 弄脏; 玷污
sully的过去分词和过去式

COCA.37953

柯林斯词典

• VERB 败坏;有损于;使贬值
  If somethingis sullied bysomething else, it is damaged so that it is no longer pure or of such high value.
  1. The City's reputation has been sullied by scandals like those at Lloyd's...
     类似劳埃德保险公司的那些丑闻令伦敦名声扫地。
  2. She claimed they were sullying her good name.
     她声称他们在败坏她的名誉。
• VERB 弄脏;玷污
  If someonesulliessomething, they make it dirty.
  1. I felt loath to sully the gleaming brass knocker by handling it.
     我不愿意伸手去抓那闪亮的黄铜门环，怕把它弄脏。

双语例句

• Mr Murdoch says the paper has a proud history of fighting crime and exposing wrongdoing, but that the good things it does have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong.
  MrMurdoch说这份报纸有着令人骄傲的成绩在抵制犯罪以及披露错误的行为。它曾经的行为被错误的行为玷污了。
• I don't want her to be sullied!
  我不要她被玷污！
• The City's reputation has been sullied by scandals like those at Lloyd's
  类似劳埃德保险公司的那些丑闻令伦敦名声扫地。
• The immaculate stains easily.; The immaculate is easily sullied.
  皎皎者易污。
• This is partly the result of the financial crisis, which has sullied the name of business generally.
  这在一定程度上是由此次金融危机造成的。这场危机从整体上败坏了企业的名声。
• One thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.
  有一件事我能明白：你表示，有一个玷污的记忆就是永久的毁灭。
• Its reputation has already been sullied and important holdings in Russia are at risk because of tensions in Ukraine.
  该公司的声誉已经遭到损害，而且乌克兰的紧张局势，也给它在俄罗斯持有的大量资产增加了风险。
• I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower-breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.
  我做错了：我本要糟蹋无邪的花儿&把罪孽带给无辜：但上帝将她从我身边抢走。
• Hopefully, a near-epic Cup quarter-final won't be sullied by the events of stupid fans home and away.
  幸好一场近乎史诗式的杯赛四分一决赛，并没有因主队和客队的愚蠢球迷而受到毁坏。
• In Gardner's mind, VENONA was almost an art form, and he did not want it sullied by crude McCarthyism.
  在加德纳看来，维农纳几乎是某种形式的艺术，他不想让它被粗鄙的麦卡锡主义玷污。