词为我用 - mar

词汇释义

mar UK  /mɑːr/ US  /mɑːr/TEM8  GRE

verb, To mar something means to spoil or damage it.破坏，损坏，毁坏

外刊例句

1. Thousands of soldiers and federal police were guarding polling stations where violence and calls for boycotts threatened to mar elections for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayors and local officials.(The Guardian)

2. Sterile, defensive tactics on the pitch and hooligan violence off it (the organisers, with justice, fear the influx of barbarian fans from neighbouring Britain) could yet mar this year's contest.(The Economist)

3. Eric Borremans of BNP Paribas Asset Management says that making money and doing the right thing are not "mutually incompatible goals". Companies that take ethical or governance shortcuts risk being embroiled in scandals that damage their profitability and mar their brands.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

mar beauty, image, brand

词汇来源

Middle English merren "to deface, disfigure; impair in form or substance" (early 13c.), from Old English merran (Anglian), mierran (West Saxon) "to waste, spoil," from Proto-Germanic *marzjan (source also of Old Frisian meria, Old High German marren "to hinder, obstruct," Gothic marzjan "to hinder, offend"), from PIE root *mers- "to trouble, confuse" (source also of Sanskrit mrsyate "forgets, neglects," Lithuanian miršti "to forget"). For vowel change, see marsh. Related: Marred; marring.

近义词

blemish, darken, poison, spoil, stain, taint, tarnish, vitiate

反义词

cleanse, purify, dignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, hallow, magnify, uplift

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