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defy 在英語-中文（繁體）詞典中的翻譯
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C2 to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.
對抗;違抗;反抗
It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers.
很少看見孩子公然跟老師作對。
A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
幾個工人不顧大多數人的罷工決定自己去上班了。
The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.
我總認為飛機沒有從天上掉下來，是不符合萬有引力定律的。
A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.
儘管採取了各種措施，加利福尼亞南部的一場森林大火依然在肆虐。
defy belief/description/explanation
C2 to be extreme or very strange and therefore impossible to believe, describe, or explain: The chaos at the airport defies description.
機場一片混亂，難以用語言形容。
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to tell someone to do something that you think will be impossible: I defy you to prove your accusations.
我倒要看看你能不能拿出證據來證實你的指控。
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更多範例减少例句The mess in Bart's room defies description!His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.In 1970 he defied the three-line whip against EC membership.They defied convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient.Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.
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defy的例句
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Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity.
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His "heroes" will continually offer resistance to authorial reification, they will invariably defy their author's assumed transgradience.
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In contrast, signatures that result from recombination between ribosomal variants leave traces that defy any phylogenetic hypothesis.
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And, finally, there are those - the truly problematic cases - which defy exclusive classification.
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Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives.
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The ' emergence' of the factors of interest should surely be shown as a rational and replicable process, not presented as alchemy that defies explanation.
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Plus most women on death row, like their male counterparts, have complex, dysfunctional lives, and so defy easy categorisation.
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Those who support a democratic regime do not have to defy traditional authority relations within the family or in the workplace.
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示例中的觀點不代表劍橋詞典編輯、劍橋大學出版社和其許可證頒發者的觀點。
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