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

• Mine is a debased condition, but is at least perfectly normal.
  我这种状况有些粗鄙，但至少是非常正常的。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
  （用于语言）纯度或优点没有降低的。
• A debased or despised condition.
  卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eclecticism flourished in the19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
  折衷主义风格流行于19世纪，尽管贬低了很多，但还是存活了下来，出现在现代防卫型社区和郊外屋村住宅中。
• 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。