stain on somebody's character/name/reputation etcFAULT/something WRONGsomething that damages the good opinion that people have about someone 某人性格/名声/名誉等方面的污点stain on somebody’s character/name/reputation etc• Whatever the outcome, he not unnaturally regarded his time in gaol as a stigma, as a stain on his character.• Buy him eine kleine Knackwurst and toddle home without a stain on your character.• Robert Lopez is released without a stain on his character.• Duran dominated Leonard physically that night, but five months later the New Orleans farce put a huge stain on his reputation.• The massacre has left an indelible stain on the name of Clan Campbell.
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