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。 - 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。 - Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。 - The word "sale" has been debased by shops who hold sales at all times of the year.
减价一词因那些一年到头都在减价的商店而被贬低了含义。 - 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。 - Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。 - 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。 - ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
（用于语言）纯度或优点没有降低的。 - And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.
如此，人自甘卑下，自甘堕落，对他们决无救援。 - 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。