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sully

/suhl-ee/US // ˈsʌl i //UK // (ˈsʌlɪ) //

玷污,污辱,玷污了,脏污

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v.有主动词 verb
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    sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.

    • : to soil, stain, or tarnish.
    • : to mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.

    • : to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sul·lies.

    • : Obsolete. a stain; soil.

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Examples

  • Sully told Keaney he “wanted to study something about basketball,” his favorite sport.

  • I begin to observe that it sounds as if Sully is in microcosm what Newman himself…but that is as far as I get.

  • In giving Sully a life, he gave the character some of his own life.

  • Sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown.

  • But he was also showing a gritty and sully city in a beautiful way.

  • The Sully people catalogue a variety of reactions to today's job numbers.

  • All day long I sully sheet after sheet of paper and beguile the tedious hours with the half-faded recollections of my childhood.

  • He sent Sully over to cement the good understanding of the two States by arguments and gifts to the leading courtiers.

  • Sully was represented at the Philadelphia Academy by one hundred and sixteen pictures.

  • No pains were spared to sully his character, to ruin his fortunes, and to render him an object of public indignation.

  • There are, nevertheless, three or four female heads, of an ethereal beauty-portraits in the manner of Sully.

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