debased
英 [dɪˈbeɪst]
美 [dɪˈbeɪst]
v. 降低…的价值; 败坏…的名誉
debase的过去分词和过去式
BNC.34639 / COCA.29108
柯林斯词典
- VERB 降低…的价值(或质量);使贬值
Todebasesomething means to reduce its value or quality.- Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。 - He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
- Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
英英释义
adj
- ruined in character or quality
- lowered in value
- the dollar is low
- a debased currency
- mixed with impurities
双语例句
- For Orwell, writing in the 1940s, the language of politics was the most debased.
奥威尔在上世纪40年代写道,政治语言最为低下。 - A debased or despised condition.
卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。 - The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics
年轻人更是把他看作一位坚持原则、不会为了政治上的妥协而卑躬屈膝的人。 - His foul language is so debased that women are advised not to stay long in his presence.
他的粗话是如此下流,以至于妇女们最好不要跟他就待。 - Eclecticism flourished in the19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
折衷主义风格流行于19世纪,尽管贬低了很多,但还是存活了下来,出现在现代防卫型社区和郊外屋村住宅中。 - The Gang of Four really debased our standards of social conduct.
现在,四人帮确实把我们的风气搞坏了。 - Our world view has become debased we no longer have a sense of the sacred.
我们的世界观堕落了。我们不再有神圣感了。 - They have debased and defiled the purity of the tongue.
他们亵渎玷污了这种语言的纯洁性。 - The quality of life can only be debased by such a system.
唯有这样的一种制度才会降低生活的品质。 - He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。