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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
  政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。