tear down

基本解释

They tried to tear down the reputation of the novelist.
他们试图诋毁小说家的名声。
We have to tear down this sick system -- so the sick can live.
我们必须破除这个不良制度，这样病人才能存活。
“So you keep nibbling away at your past like this, whether you deaccession something from a museum or you let people tear down a good building, ” he said.
“所以今天从博物馆里出售掉一些藏品也好，明天让人拆掉一幢漂亮的建筑也好，你就这样继续蚕食着你的过去，”他说道。

Many people disagreed with George Steinbrenner's decision to tear down the original stadium from nineteen twenty-three.
He says let's tear the whole damn thing down.
他说让我们把这玩意儿拆了吧
耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选
Back on 108. This is the nurse who has just escaped from Dr. Hilarius: "'He thinks someone's after him.' Tear streaks had meandered down over the nurse's cheekbones."
这是一个刚从Dr。，Hilarius那逃走的护士：,“他觉得有人在身后跟着他’,眼泪从护士的面颊上留下来“
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They have struggled over the years to tear down outdated values and prejudicial systems.
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