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单词 sully
释义
sullysul‧ly /ˈsʌli/ verb (past tense and past participle sullied, present participle sullying, third person singular sullies) [transitive] formal or literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsully
Origin:
1500-1600 Probably from Old French soiller; SOIL2
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
sully
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theysully
he, she, itsullies
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theysullied
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave sullied
he, she, ithas sullied
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad sullied
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill sully
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have sullied
Continuous Form
PresentIam sullying
he, she, itis sullying
you, we, theyare sullying
PastI, he, she, itwas sullying
you, we, theywere sullying
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been sullying
he, she, ithas been sullying
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been sullying
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be sullying
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been sullying
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And I must take care not to sully it, is that it?
  • And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest.
  • Instead, the general manager has sullied the whole outfit.
  • Is it too pure to be sullied by the messiness of domestic life?
  • Oil spills have sullied thousands of acres.
  • They stood for progress, a notion already being sullied by contempt for the military-industrial complex.
to spoil or reduce the value of something that was perfect:  a scandal that sullied his reputation
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