- 1褻瀆（糟蹋神聖或受敬重的事物）
Desecration is the act of spoiling or damaging something holy or deeply respected. People use it for a temple, a church, a grave, a flag, or a place that a group treats as sacred. You it when you break it, dirty it, mock it, or use it in a way that shows you do not care what it means. The word is strong and rather formal; news, law, and angry speeches use it more than quiet everyday talk. Though actually, speakers stretch it: spraying paint on a war monument may be called desecration even when the place is not a church, because the monument is still holy to someone. It always sounds like a charge against the person who did it.
組成de- (undo, reverse) + a ‘sacred/holy’ root + -ation (the act). The verb is desecrate.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
desecrationnoun/dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.
- It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
- In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。