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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A debased or despised condition.
  卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
• 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。
• 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。