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詞源
源自中古英語 、 (“變髒;弄髒,弄污”),源自古英語 (“弄髒,弄污”)[1],源自原始日耳曼語 、、 (“弄髒,弄污”),源自原始印歐語 (“粘稠的液體,淤泥”),可能與來自相同日耳曼語族源頭的古法語 (“弄髒,弄污”)(現代法語 )部分混合。與丹麥語 (“弄髒,弄污”)、荷蘭語 (“弄髒,弄污”)(中古荷蘭語 (“弄髒,弄污”))、德語 (“弄髒,弄污”)、古撒克遜語 (“弄髒,弄污”)、瑞典語 (“弄髒,弄污”)同源。亦对比中古英語 (“弄髒,弄污”)[2]、古英語 (“弄髒,弄污;變髒”),參見 。
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動詞
(第三人稱單數簡單現在時,現在分詞,一般過去時及過去分詞)
- (及物) 弄髒
- 近義詞: (棄用)
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
- 他不希望因園藝弄髒手。
- 1672, The Earl of Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon], “The Sixth Ode, of the Third Book of Horace”, 出自 Poems by the Earl of Roscomon, London: J[acob] Tonson, 出版於 1717,頁號 153,行號s 1–6:
- THoſe Ills your Anceſtors have done, / Romans, are now become your own ; / And they will coſt you dear, / Unleſs you ſoon repair / The falling Temples which the Gods provoke, / And Statues ſully’d yet with Sacrilegious Smoke.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (及物) 玷污、毀損(名聲等)
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參考資料
- ↑ “sulen, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ↑ “sulpen, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 January 2018.
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