Transgress

(verb.) pass beyond (limits or boundaries).

(verb.) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; 'offend all laws of humanity'; 'violate the basic laws or human civilization'; 'break a law'; 'break a promise'.

(verb.) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; 'The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island'.

录入:李莉斯

• The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As the rules of order and pressure of laws were lost, some began with hesitation and wonder to transgress the accustomed uses of society. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their creation myth proclaims: Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is more than time for retirement, said Madame; the rule of the house has already been transgressed too long. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax's feelings to Frank Churchill. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• We all promised faithfully, Richard with a merry glance at me touching his pocket as if to remind me that there was no danger of OUR transgressing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Each doing his own part, and never transgressing, the order and unity of the whole would be maintained. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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