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

• He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
  他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
• 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。
• It's completely wrong to say that football is boring. ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
  说足球没意思，那纯属胡言乱语。（用于语言）纯度或优点没有降低的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Except when Greek offered resistance, all natural languages had been forced to yield to a debased latin;
  凡在希腊语没有进行抵抗的地方，一切民族语言都不得不让位于被败坏的拉丁语；
• 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。
• 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。