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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
  体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。
• 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。
• 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。
• A debased or despised condition.
  卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
• You just completely debased and humiliated him.
  你彻底贬低侮辱了他。
• 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。