defiling

基本解释

If someone dies suddenly in his presence, thus defiling the hair he has dedicated, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing-the seventh day.
若在他旁邊忽然有人死了,以致沾染了他離俗的頭,他要在第七日得潔淨的時候剃頭.
You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.
‘你們要這樣使以色列人與他們的汙穢隔絕，免得他們玷汙我的帳幕，就因自己的汙穢死亡。’
It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander.
他燬謗亡人，以讕言玷汙其美名，用這種下流手段來達到政治上的成功，使有道德之人甚爲沮喪。

The defiling effect of lesser transgressions is calibrated to the sinner's intentionality and the presence or absence of repentance.
相對較輕的犯罪帶來的褻凟影響,隨罪人的犯罪動機,是否出蓆祭祀儀式和是否悔改而變化。
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These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.
這些都在《利未記》十八章和二十章裡講清楚了，除了玷汙人使人變得有罪，道德上的不潔從象征意義上玷汙了各層聖所，尤其是最外麪那層聖所，同時也玷汙了上帝的名字,和“聖地“這個名字。
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