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

• A debased or despised condition.
  卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
• And the miners were debased by the poverty that eroded ambition and pride. Social security system can be set up gradually in regions with good conditions so as to reduce the rate of falling back to poverty again.
  因为穷困，矿工们的身价降低了，他们的雄心和骄傲也被贫穷所侵蚀。有条件的地方，逐步建立社会保障制度，降低返贫率。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Taxes were regularized, tariffs lifted, private mints abolished and the debased currency restored.
  税收调整了，关税提高了，私人造币厂废除了，贬值货币恢复了。
• 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。
• 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。