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]
Ritual impurity also defiles or renders impure sancta, and so it has to be kept separate from sancta.
仪式上的不洁也会玷污或弄脏圣所,因此它必须远离圣所。
Idolatry also defiles the land.
偶像崇拜同样玷污这片土地。
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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