He derived it from the older word smirch, which meant to make dirty.

他这个词是从词smirch（意为弄脏）衍生而来。

My own career's just one long brazen smirch of 'em!

我自己职业生涯只是对她们长期厚颜无耻污蔑！

Interestingly, the word smirch soon fell out of common use, but Shakespeare's new word besmirch survives to this day.

有趣是，“smirch” 一词很快不再常用，但莎士比亚创造新词“besmirch” 却流传至今。

" Enough! I understand, " — said Mrs. Cadwallader. " You shall be innocent. I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself" .

“够了！我明白了，” ——卡德沃拉德夫人说。“你应该是无辜。我是个黑人， 我不能自欺欺人” 。

But Joe Burrow is someone that like even when we were preparing for this segment, Kyle our editor was like, you know, he was be smirching him.

但是乔·伯罗 (Joe Burrow) 是这样一个人，甚至当我们在准备这个片段时，我们编辑 (Kyle) 一直在嘲笑他。

The worst scandals of the eighteenth century were relatively harmless by the side of this, which smirched executive, judiciary, banks, corporate systems, professions, and people, all the great active forces of society, in one dirty cesspool of vulgar corruption.

18 世纪最严重丑闻与此相比相对无害， 它使行政部门、司法部门、银行、公司系统、专业人士和人民， 所有社会上积极力量， 都陷入了低俗腐败肮脏污水池中。