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
- It's completely wrong to say that football is boring. ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
说足球没意思,那纯属胡言乱语。(用于语言)纯度或优点没有降低的。 - Reagan debased all these ideas and modern American conservatism is still suffering the consequences.
里根摒弃了所有这些思想现代美国保守主义至今仍在承受由此产生的后果。 - Except when Greek offered resistance, all natural languages had been forced to yield to a debased latin;
凡在希腊语没有进行抵抗的地方,一切民族语言都不得不让位于被败坏的拉丁语; - 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。 - You just completely debased and humiliated him.
你彻底贬低侮辱了他。 - Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。 - To some, this is yet another case of debased government figures.
对一些人而言,这又只是一个被政府加工过的数据而已。 - 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 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。 - Fortune-telling is a very much debased art surrounded by superstition
算命是一种非常低级的把戏,充满了迷信色彩。