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 defiance [di'faiәns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 蔑视, 挑战

[法] 挑战, 藐视, 违抗


  1. He shouted defiance words at the enemy.
    他大声呼喊着向敌人挑战。
  2. An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention.
    反抗，对抗对权威或已被接受的传统习惯蔑视的行为或表现
  3. He gave false proof, which set the court at defiance.
    他出示假证据，这就是蔑视法庭。


defiance
[ noun ]
  1. intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

    2. <noun.attribute>
  2. a hostile challenge

    3. <noun.communication>
  3. a defiant act

    4. <noun.act>


Defiance \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge,
fr. desfier to challenge, F. d['e]fier. See {Defy}.]
1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to
combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

A war without a just defiance made. --Dryden.

Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
--Tennyson.

2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.

He breathed defiance to my ears. --Shak.

3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.]
``Defiance to thy kindness.'' --Ford.

{To bid defiance}, {To set at defiance}, to defy; to
disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke.

  1. South Africa has refused to give up its control of Namibia, in defiance of the 1978 U.N. resolution, until the Cubans leave Angola.
  2. Some of the songs protested her country's white minority regime: The songs were a way she and others could demonstrate their defiance in school and church choruses.
  3. Meanwhile, a Superior Court judge delayed ruling on the city's request for contempt citations against 110 firefighters who called in sick over the weekend in defiance of a back-to-work order.
  4. Members of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have been squabbling over quota allocations and several nations have consistently produced beyond their established limits in open defiance of the OPEC ceilings.
  5. Under amendments it passed yesterday in defiance of a presidential veto, the Russian parliament gave itself and local parliaments the right to supervise media programmes.
  6. South African police used whips and tear gas to disperse hundreds of students at the University of Cape Town in a crackdown on supporters of a nationwide defiance campaign.
  7. "The only means that remain open to the voteless majority is to embark on a program of peaceful, non-violent defiance that will change these laws," Chikane said.
  8. Twelve white women supporting the protest were arrested in Johannesburg, but no violence was reported at any of the eight hospitals targeted by the Mass Democratic Movement, a coalition of anti-apartheid groups that planned the defiance campaign.
  9. Black students and their parents Sunday demanded nullification of high school exams that 58 percent of black students failed, and they urged the failing youths to re-enroll in defiance of government rules.
  10. "America manufactures missiles and puts above our heads satellites," the Libyan leader was quoted as saying. "This provokes you and ignites in you the spirit of defiance and revolution to reach space and manufacture the atom."
  11. Fernandez, who operated in Central America under the pseudonym of Tomas Castillo, is charged with conspiring to operate an illegal arms-supply network to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban on such military assistance.
  12. Yemen's ambassador, Abdallah Saleh Al-Ashtal, warned that any military action backing the sanctions might lead to war, while Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcon said the council's move was in defiance of the U.N. charter.
  13. He already is under investigation for a similar statement in defiance of emergency law.
  14. A military rout was presented within Iraq as a David-like defiance of the western imperialist Goliath. Saddam's survival continues to baffle western governments, though not the people of Iraq.
  15. That defiance of gravity occurred despite the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, tight fiscal and monetary policies, slower economic growth and New Delhi's near brush with default when India came close to running out of foreign exchange a few months ago.
  16. The ceremony was conducted by Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, one of the four new bishops Lefebvre consecrated in 1988 in defiance of papal orders, creating what the Vatican said was a historic split in the church.
  17. Peace activist Abie Nathan met with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday in defiance of an Israeli law that has already put him behind bars once, the PLO news agency WAFA reported.
  18. There was no sign of organized protest at University Square, where demonstrators gathered Sunday and Monday in defiance of the violent suppression of dissent.
  19. A coalition of anti-apartheid groups, in statements issued at a news conference, accused Vlok of trying to foster paranoia among white voters and said the defiance campaign would be non-violent.
  20. Impeached former federal judge Alcee Hastings is trying to make a comeback in public life, running for Florida secretary of state with the same defiance he displayed toward prosecutors and U.S. senators.
  21. He freed me up." She was once known as "Mother of the Nation," a symbol of black defiance of South Africa's racial policies.
  22. The vote in Sjobo was the first open defiance of Sweden's longstanding policy to provide a home to refugees and give them language training, job skills, housing, education and other benefits.
  23. Iranian leaders fear that Iraq will blitz Tehran and other major cities with a barrage of missiles to disrupt the elections, and they have urged Iran's more than 20 million voters to turn out in a massive show of defiance.
  24. The nation is determined to survive in defiance of President Mouawad's assassins," the announcer on state-run Channel 7 said.
  25. The Mass Democratic Movement, a coalition of anti-apartheid groups organizing the defiance activities, has been mentioned so frequently by the white candidates that MDM, as it is commonly called, has become a household name.
  26. The school was built to accommodate 630 students, and now has 203. It is in the heart of the country's largest "gray area," where thousands of black and Indian families have moved in defiance of residential segregation laws.
  27. De Gaulle wrote later that he felt like the survivor of a shipwreck, "a man on the shore of an ocean, proposing to swim across." Fifty years later, De Gaulle's broadcast is a hallowed memory for France, a symbol of defiance against all odds.
  28. Police in South Africa said students, teachers and civil-rights groups demonstrated in defiance of new government curbs on campus protests.
  29. In February 1987, Gray jailed Mrs. Murabito, now 39, after she hid the children in defiance of a court order to let her husband see the children during supervised visits.
  30. To many Israelis, the Veil of Tears, as that battle is known, still dramatizes their own defiance toward Syria and its claim to the Golan Heights, conquered by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967.
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