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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• What followed was a spiralling proliferation of increasingly spurious credit instruments denominated in a debased currency.
  随之而来的是欺骗性越来越强的信贷工具呈螺旋式扩散，这些信贷工具是以一种贬值的货币计价的。
• The Gang of Four really debased our standards of social conduct.
  现在，四人帮确实把我们的风气搞坏了。
• Fortune-telling is a very much debased art surrounded by superstition
  算命是一种非常低级的把戏，充满了迷信色彩。
• 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；
• Yes, that's the d'Urberville nose and chin-a little debased.
  不错，这正是德贝维尔家族的鼻子和下巴&但有一点儿衰落。