英汉词典

defeat 基本解释

• vt. 击败，战胜；挫败；使…失败
• n. 失败；战胜

defeat 词态变化

defeat 中文词源

de-, 不，非，使相反。feat, 功绩。引申义战胜。

defeat 英文词源

defeat

defeat: [14] Etymologically, to defeat someone is literally to ‘undo’ them. The verb comes from Anglo–Norman defeter, a derivative of the noun defet. This in turn came from Old French desfait, the past participle of the verb desfaire. This was a descendant of medieval Latin disfacere, literally ‘undo’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis-, denoting reversal, and Latin facere ‘do, make’.

Its original metaphorical extension was to ‘ruination’ or ‘destruction’, and the now central sense ‘conquer’ is not recorded in English before the 16th century. A classical Latin combination of facere with the prefix dē- rather than dis- produced defect, deficient, and deficit.
=> defect, deficient, deficit

defeat (v.)

late 14c., from Anglo-French defeter, from Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire "to undo," from Vulgar Latin *diffacere "undo, destroy," from Latin dis- "un-, not" (see dis-) + facere "to do, perform" (see factitious). Original sense was of "bring ruination, cause destruction." Military sense of "conquer" is c. 1600. Related: Defeated; defeating.

defeat (n.)

1590s, from defeat (v.).

defeat 英文释义

1. an unsuccessful ending

2. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

defeat 同义词解析

conquer, overcome, overthrow, defeat, beat, subdue

这些动词均含"征服，战胜"之意。

conquer： 侧重战胜和控制。书面用词。

overcome： 多指战胜或克服非物质的东西，如困难和不良习惯等。语气较弱也可指在斗争或竞争中战胜或压倒对方。

overthrow： 指彻底击败对手，使其丧失力量和地位。

defeat： 普通用词，多指在战争、比赛、竞选或辩论中战胜对手，侧重胜利的暂时性。

beat： 口笔语均可用，可与defeat换用。

subdue： 正式用词，与conquer同义，但强调失败后的臣服状态；也可用作借喻，表克制、压抑感情、欲望等。

defeat 双语例句

1. After the pain of defeat passes, England have some thinking to do.

失败的痛苦过去以后，英国人应该认真反思一下。

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2. Initially the government was unwilling to accept the defeat.

最初政府不愿意承认失败。

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3. Sampdoria lost their unbeaten record with a 2-1 home defeat against Genoa.

桑普多利亚队主场1比2负于热那亚队之后，终止了自己的不败纪录。

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4. They had their championship hopes dashed by a 3-1 defeat.

遭遇1比3的失利后，他们的冠军梦就此破灭。

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5. Second-placed Auxerre suffered a surprising 2-0 home defeat to Nantes.

排名第二的欧塞尔队出人意料地在主场以0比2败给了南特队。

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defeat 实用场景例句

He defeated the champion in three sets.

他三盘击败了冠军。

牛津词典

a defeated army

败军

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The instruction manual completely defeated me.

这操作指南把我完全弄糊涂了。

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The motion was defeated by 19 votes.

这项动议以19票反对被否决。

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Staying late at the office to discuss shorter working hours rather defeats the object of the exercise !

迟迟待在办公室讨论缩短工作时间恰恰是在阻挠这一目标的实现！

牛津词典

The party faces defeat in the election.

这个党面临选举失败。

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a narrow/heavy defeat

惜败；惨败

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The world champion has only had two defeats in 20 fights.

这个世界冠军在20场拳击赛中只败过两场。

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They finally had to admit defeat (= stop trying to be successful) .

他们最后只得认输。

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the defeat of fascism

战胜法西斯主义

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He swore to defeat Odin's plan.

他发誓一定要挫败奥丁的计划。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The most important thing is not to admit defeat until you really have to...

最重要的是不到万不得已绝不要认输。

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The vote is seen as a defeat for the anti-abortion lobby...

这一投票结果被看作是反堕胎游说团体的一次失败。

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The navy played a limited but significant role in defeating the rebellion...

海军在平息这场叛乱的过程中起到了有限但却十分重要的作用。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There were times when the challenges of writing such a huge novel almost defeated her.

有些时候，创作如此宏大的一部小说所面临的挑战几乎把她给难倒了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The proposal was defeated by just one vote.

该提案仅以一票之差被否决。

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The NHL Stanley Cup was won by the Montreal Canadians, who defeated the Boston Bruins four games to one.

蒙特利尔加拿大人队以 4 比1战胜波士顿棕熊队，夺得了国家冰球联盟斯坦利杯。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954...

1954 年他领导的游击队打败了殖民军队。

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The enemy grew desperate at the defeat.

敌人因战败而拼死挣扎.

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He was calm and concentrated in judging how to defeat his opponent.

他冷静沉着,聚精会神地判断如何打败对手.

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Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.

我们的失败可能是我们后继者获胜的开端.

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He finally conceded defeat.

他最终承认了失败.

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The enemy became desperate at the defeat.

敌人因失败而进行殊死挣扎.

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They ran riot through the town after the defeat of their team.

自己的球队输了以后,他们在小镇上到处撒野.

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The country was humiliated by defeat.

该国因战败而受辱.

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Defeat in this important match was the beginning of the end for us.

这场重要比赛的失利对我们而言是败局已定的前兆.

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We must pick up the pieces of our political defeat, and start working towards the next election.

我们在政治上失败后必须重整旗鼓, 开始为下次的竞选进行工作.

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