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

过去分词：debased　过去式：debased　

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.
  1. Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
     政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
  2. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
     他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。

英英释义

adj

• ruined in character or quality
  Synonym:corruptedvitiated
• lowered in value
  1. the dollar is low
  2. a debased currency
  Synonym:devalueddegraded
• mixed with impurities
  Synonym:adulterateadulterated

双语例句

• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• What followed was a spiralling proliferation of increasingly spurious credit instruments denominated in a debased currency.
  随之而来的是欺骗性越来越强的信贷工具呈螺旋式扩散，这些信贷工具是以一种贬值的货币计价的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
  他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
• Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
  体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。