defy
美 [dɪˈfaɪ] 
英 [dɪ'faɪ]
- v.蔑视；违抗；反抗；无法（相信、解释、描绘等）
- 网络藐视；公然反抗；向…挑战
词形变化
过去式：defied 现在分词：defying 第三人称单数：defies 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | ~ sb/sth 违抗；反抗；蔑视to refuse to obey or show respect for sb in authority, a law, a rule, etc. |
| I wouldn't have dared to defy my teachers. 我可不敢不听老师的话。 |
| Hundreds of people today defied the ban on political gatherings. 今天有数百人违抗禁止政治集会的规定。 |
2. | ~ belief, explanation, description, etc. 不可能，无法（相信、解释、描绘等）to be impossible or almost impossible to believe, explain, describe, etc. |
| a political move that defies explanation 无法解释的政治举动 |
| The beauty of the scene defies description. 景色之美简直难以描绘。 |
3. | ~ sth 经受住；顶住；抗住to successfully resist sth to a very unusual degree |
| The baby boy defied all the odds and survived(= stayed alive when it seemed certain that he would die) . 这名男婴九死一生活了下来。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
She made a bet that she could defy the credit crunch and live on just one pound a day for a year.
她打赌自己可以和信贷紧缩抗争——1天只花1英镑并且持续一年的时间。
Germany cannot defy the gravity that has pulled much of the EU region close to recession, and some parts of it to negative GDP growth.
德国不能否认这重力，它已经把欧洲很多地区接近于不景气，其中一些地区到GDP的负增长。
Some of the price moves, notably in the oil markets, seem to defy the underlying fundamentals of plentiful supply and rather anemic demand.
但这类商品的一些价格变动，特别是油价变动，似乎与供大于求的市场基本面明显存在矛盾。
I defy anyone to walk out of a brothel or to walk out of an orphanage leaving those people behind.
我蔑视任何走出妓院，走出孤儿院就将那些受害的人们遗忘的人。
He disavowed nothing; he seemed as if he would defy all things.
他没有否认什么，他看上去似乎要向一切挑战。
She felt like the only way she could courageously act in such a society was to refuse, to live in it, to defy it by death.
身处在那样一种社会中，她觉得唯一敢做的便是不惜以死相拒。
Thousands of anti-government protesters in Thailand have continued to defy a state of emergency declared in the capital Bangkok.
在泰国首都曼谷，数千名反政府的抗议者继续挑战政府宣布的紧急状态令。
the children of those who defy the rules are sometimes denied government benefits, including access to a free education.
一些不符合政策的非独生子女有时会得不到政府的福利和优惠，包括享受义务教育的权利。
Superconductivity is one of those nearly magical properties that seem to defy all intuition for how the physical world ought to work.
超导是很神奇的一种性质，这种性质与人们对物理世界的一些直观印象相悖。
Jack decides to wait until the price comes down. The fate seems to defy him. The price goes on rising on Friday.
杰克决定等股价跌下来再买，命运好像跟他做对似的，周五的股价依然上涨。
Calling Ali "a fierce fighter and a man of peace, " Bush said, Ali's fighting style would be studied for years but defy imitation.
布什在颁奖时称赞阿里是“一位坚强的战士和爱好和平的人”。布什还说，阿里的拳击风格会被别人研究很多年，但它是不可复制的。
But as long as the hearts of a strong belief support, will be able to defy the storm, Ezhu fate of the throat!
但只要心中有强大的信念支撑，定能不惧风雨，扼住命运的咽喉！
It was a lonely quest for the two of them in their garage behind the shop, plotting to defy gravity and conquer the wind.
他们两人在自己的自行车店后面的车库里开始了孤独的旅程，计划着如何摆脱地心吸力，驭风而行。
Marlena (Reese Witherspoon) and Jacob (Robert Pattinson) defy the obstacles (like the fact that she's married) to get a circus romance on.
马莱娜（瑞茜·威瑟斯彭）和雅各布（罗伯特·帕丁森）冲破重重阻碍（比如说她已婚的事实），上演马戏团之恋。
'Thirty, ' said the first bidder, in a tone which seemed to defy anybody to go higher.
“三十法郎，”第一个出价的人又叫了，口气似乎是对别人加价感到恼火。
The question now is whether Mr. Kan, a plain-spoken former civic activist, can further defy precedent by lasting more than a year in office.
目前的问题是，菅直人先生，这位直来直去的前民间活动家，是否能打破惯例，在首相的位置上待上一年。
Choosing to defy or to deify Papa puts him squarely at the center of your universe.
对父亲不论选择藐视还是选择奉为神都还是将他放在了你心目的中心。
Homework personnel under such " little it " , easy to cause, should defy, react while being hot, it is disorderly to cause metabolism.
作业人员在这样的“微气候”下，容易造成热应激反应，引起新陈代谢紊乱。
There are reports that high-school students have formed investment groups to pump into shares, whose prices seem to defy the law of gravity.
有报道称有一些高中生已经组成了投资团准备入股，那些股票涨得似乎已经违反了重利法则。
Trees defy gravity. They are the only natural element in perpetual-movement toward the sky.
它藐视地心引力，它是唯一的永恒地朝向天空的自然元素。
I feel he may defy us there.
我想我们是搞不过他的。
In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law , and die for it , rather than transgress the eternal , unwritten laws of the gods.
正在安提歌僧，我们睹到一个将会鄙视人类的法令，并且为它死，并不是违犯神的永久又出有写法令的女人。
If you defy the court by continuing to cut hair, another group of men will come to your shop.
要是你敢于藐视法庭，继续干你的营生，另外一帮人就会来到你的店里。
I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valuable son-in-law.
我敢说，连卢卡斯爵士也未必拿得出一个更名贵的女婿。
Some aspects of anyone's life will defy philosophical analysis, and perhaps analysis of any other kind too.
任何个人生活的某些方面，抵抗哲学分析，或许也抵抗任何别种分析。
The Shaping was that we must not defy the Invid, but that neither could we tell any outsider of our plight!
塑造之意是既不可违逆因维主人，也不可对局外人说出我们的困境！
He was also loath to have an alien among the ranks of the Grand Admirals, such as Thrawn, though he never attempted to defy Palpatine.
他同样反感一个异种人出现在他所在的帝国元帅之列，比如索龙，虽然如此，他却从来没有试着反对帕尔帕丁。
This is the only organ in the body which seems to defy the aging process.
这是身体里唯一不服老的器官
Tenzin Tsundue, one of the march leaders, said they had not decided whether to defy the ban.
腾津。村杜，游行的领导者之一表示，他们还没决定是否要挑战这项禁令。
Advocating whistle-blowing could be misunderstood as an endorsement to defy the team or the direction of a company.
支持泄密可能会被理解力为对小组的不尊重和影响公司的发展方向。
but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
可是即使以你这样的机灵，我看你还是猜不出你那位爱人姓甚名谁。
The craze seems to defy sales patterns and common sense elsewhere, especially for a dog that is common and is known for being fierce.
这种狂热似乎与其他地方的销售模式和常规相违背，尤其是对于一种以凶猛而著称的普通狗来说。
Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic.
老年人与民间违抗胸前，并与金属和塑料制成的臀部节拍器死亡和残疾。
It's such a preposterous setup that I was always aware of the plot chugging away, and the logistics of the chase defy all common sense.
如此荒谬的铺垫，总是让我觉得这个故事已经熄火了。还有追捕过程中的供给问题，完全不合常理。
His popularity continued to defy gravity, but authority was squandered, and public cynicism grew.
他的声望持续上升，但当局铺张浪费，民众挖苦不断。
Languorous chords seem to defy gravity as ambient synthesizer textures frame the music with golden glow.
懒洋洋的和弦似乎与合成音乐的重力相抗争着，同时音乐又像上了一个黄金相框。
We cannot defy the law of attraction, which operates on the most microscopic levels of vibration, and with absolute exactitude.
我们不能违抗吸引法则，它对最微观层次的频率振动施加影响，并且绝对精准。
Gloria Naylor, a renowned African American writer, seems to defy many of the stereotypes of someone who believes in mind control.
GloriaNaylor著名的美国黑人作家，似乎藐视许多人相信大脑控制的陈腔滥调。
Our guests ran with the assignment, offering a range of books eclectic enough to defy categorization by the Dewey Decimal System.
我们的客人们完成了作业，提供了一份广度足以挑战杜威十进制图书分类系统的书单。
The company name on the office building may even change, but the code will endure in ways that defy belief.
办公大楼上的公司名称甚至可能变更，但是代码将以违背信念的方式持久下去。
Tradition even Leonidas cannot defy. . . for he must respect the word of the ephods.
哪怕是列奥尼达，都不能违抗的传统因为他必须尊重五长老说的话
