transgress

英 [trænzˈɡres]

美 [trænzˈɡres]

v.  越轨; 违背(道德); 违犯(法律)

过去式：transgressed　过去分词：transgressed　现在分词：transgressing　第三人称单数：transgresses　复数：transgresses　

IELTSGRE

BNC.19327 / COCA.20882

牛津词典

verb

• 越轨；违背（道德）；违犯（法律）
  to go beyond the limit of what is morally or legally acceptable

柯林斯词典

• VERB 违犯道德(或行为)准则
  If someonetransgresses, they break a moral law or a rule of behaviour.
  1. If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media.
     如果政客行为失检，那可不是媒体的责任。
  2. ...a monk who had transgressed against the law of celibacy...
     触犯禁欲戒律的僧侣
  3. It seemed to me that he had transgressed the boundaries of good taste.
     在我看来他有伤大雅。

英英释义

verb

• pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
  Synonym:trespassoverstep
• commit a sin
  Synonym:sintrespass
• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  1. offend all laws of humanity
  2. violate the basic laws or human civilization
  3. break a law
  4. break a promise
  Synonym:offendinfractviolatego againstbreachbreak
• spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
  1. The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island

双语例句

• Before the late Pleistocene sea water could not probably transgress the area during the transgression of sea.
  晚更新世以前，在渤海地区的海侵期间，可能海水并未进入本区。
• As regards the private sector of the economy, we shall not hamper it, indeed we shall promote and encourage it, so long as it does not transgress the legal limits set by our government.
  我们对于私人经济，只要不出于政府法律范围之外，不但不加阻止，而且加以提倡和奖励。
• His ideas, by and large, do not transgress the limits of moderate western-type nation-building.
  普京的思想总体上并没有逾越温和的西方式国家建设的界限。
• If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media.
  如果政客行为失检，那可不是媒体的责任。
• For such a man will transgress for a peace of bread.
  因为这样的人是会为了一块面包而枉法的。
• Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
  你的门徒为什么犯古人的遗传呢。因为吃饭的时候，他们不洗手。
• Have to transgress the company's regulation for get the job done.
  为了完成工作而不得不违反单位的规则。
• It is noticeable that the family metaphor is adopted by such organized groups as the Mafia, and who punish severely any family members who transgress family rules.
  值得注意的是家族这一象征同样适用于如黑帮，或其他激烈惩处所有背叛家规的家族成员的组织团伙。
• No one is permitted to have privileges to transgress the law.
  不允许任何人有超越法律的特权。
• You do not, therefore, transgress the law if you kill the wild beast to save your brothers life.
  因此，如果你为了保护你兄弟的生命而杀死了野兽，你没有违法。