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。
• The stone's true sphere and spirit lost, It takes a new form stinking and debased.
  失去幽灵真境界，幻来新就臭皮囊。
• 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。
• 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 currency might also suffer if investors feared it was being debased.
  一旦投资者担心某国货币贬值，汇率也可能受到影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
  政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
• Those books, both prose and verse, were consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
  这些书，包括散文和诗，都由于一些别的联想，因此对于我是神圣不可侵犯的；我极不愿意这些书在他的口里被败坏亵渎！
• 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。