debase

英 [dɪˈbeɪs]

美 [dɪˈbeɪs]

v.  降低…的价值; 败坏…的名誉

过去分词：debased　现在分词：debasing　过去式：debased　第三人称单数：debases　

GRETEM8

BNC.22131 / COCA.22355

牛津词典

verb

• 降低…的价值；败坏…的名誉
  to make sb/sth less valuable or respected
  1. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
     体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。

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

verb

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  1. adulterate liquor
  Synonym:loadadulteratestretchdilute
• lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
  Synonym:alloy
• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  1. debauch the young people with wine and women
  2. Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
  3. Do school counselors subvert young children?
  4. corrupt the morals
  Synonym:corruptpervertsubvertdemoralizedemoralisedebauchprofanevitiatedepravemisdirect

双语例句

• 'We didn't mean to debase our nationals, but sometimes they have gone too far', one employee said.
  我们没有贬低国人的意思，但是有时候他们做的太过分了，一名雇员说道。
• It is prohibited to debase or injure women's personal dignity by public media or otherwise.
  禁止通过大众传播媒介或者其他方式贬低损害妇女人格。
• China will keep on helping out, they say, though it knows the US will have to debase the dollar.
  他们表示，中国将继续提供帮助，尽管中国知道美国将不得不让美元贬值。
• We trust that the central bank does not debase it.
  我们信任央行不会降低货币的价值。
• To debase the class stand of the party, to obscure its distinctive features, to sacrifice the interests of the workers and peasants to suit the needs of bourgeois reformism, is sure to lead the revolution to defeat.
  降低党的立场，模糊党的面目，牺牲工农利益去适合资产阶级改良主义的要求，将必然引导革命趋于失败。
• The research of this thesis indicates that to debase the speculation and the swelling stock bubbles of Chinese stock market, the fundamentally measure is to complete the shareholders'voting rights.
  本文的研究最终证明，中国股市非均衡状态的根本原因之一即在于投资者投票权的非完备性。
• Fried fast food restaurant in Hamburg is not debase themselves, your grandparents fried Hamburg right is completely different from the definition.
  在速食店煎个汉堡并不是作贱自己，你的祖父母对煎汉堡有完全不同的定义。
• In track cycling, there are some ways to punish: admonition, penalize time, fine, and debase class.
  在自行车运动中，违规罚责有：警告、罚时间、罚款和降低名次。
• You must not debase yourself by such conduct.
  你千万不要用这样的行为贬低你自己。
• Vulgarly outrageous movies debase the taste of the people.
  庸俗的暴力电影，降低了人们的欣赏品位。