debase

英 [dɪˈbeɪs]

美 [dɪˈbeɪs]

v.  降低…的价值; 败坏…的名誉

过去分词：debased　现在分词：debasing　过去式：debased　第三人称单数：debases　

GRETEM8

BNC.22131 / COCA.22355

牛津词典

verb

• 降低…的价值；败坏…的名誉
  to make sb/sth less valuable or respected
  1. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
     体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。

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

verb

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  1. adulterate liquor
  Synonym:loadadulteratestretchdilute
• lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
  Synonym:alloy
• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  1. debauch the young people with wine and women
  2. Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
  3. Do school counselors subvert young children?
  4. corrupt the morals
  Synonym:corruptpervertsubvertdemoralizedemoralisedebauchprofanevitiatedepravemisdirect

双语例句

• Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
  政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
• But admittedly it's difficult to debase sensibly with people who have no common background or understanding of the subject.
  但是，不可否认，我们很难有效地降低那些对SchH没有基本常识和理解的人们。
• The research of this thesis indicates that to debase the speculation and the swelling stock bubbles of Chinese stock market, the fundamentally measure is to complete the shareholders'voting rights.
  本文的研究最终证明，中国股市非均衡状态的根本原因之一即在于投资者投票权的非完备性。
• If you debase the quantity and deliver goods of imperfect goods to us, we will refuse to accept them.
  如果贵公司降低品质并且发送有质量问题的货品给我们，我们将拒收。
• The aim of job shop scheduling optimization is not only to reduce makespan, to improve production efficiency, but also to debase operating cost as a important factor.
  采用改进的遗传算法结合神经网络，以生产周期和生产费用为双目标，实施调度优化。
• To debase the class stand of the party, to obscure its distinctive features, to sacrifice the interests of the workers and peasants to suit the needs of bourgeois reformism, is sure to lead the revolution to defeat.
  降低党的立场，模糊党的面目，牺牲工农利益去适合资产阶级改良主义的要求，将必然引导革命趋于失败。
• You debase yourself by telling such lies.
  你说这些谎话就降低了身份。
• If you can't pay your debts, debase your currency.
  如果你不能还债，那就把降低币值。
• Fried fast food restaurant in Hamburg is not debase themselves, your grandparents fried Hamburg right is completely different from the definition.
  在速食店煎个汉堡并不是作贱自己，你的祖父母对煎汉堡有完全不同的定义。
• This week he accused Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, of devising an "almost treasonous" plan to debase the dollar, a common concern among tea-party types.
  这星期他控告美联储的主席本南柯以一个基本不忠的计划使美元贬值，这在茶话会上是一个普遍的担忧。