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

• 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。
• For a man will not debase himself by work, which requires neither skill nor courage. ( No.187)
  一个人不会因既不要求技巧也不要求勇气的工作而贬低自己。
• You must not debase yourself by such conduct.
  你千万不要用这样的行为贬低你自己。
• SYSTEM it designed the domain knowledge debase;
  设计了系统的领域知识库；
• If you can't pay your debts, debase your currency.
  如果你不能还债，那就把降低币值。
• 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。
• Lower and debase myself for the amusement of strangers?
  丑化自己去娱乐那些我完全不认识的人？
• At the same time, the negative effect of some illegal advertisements becomes the focus of public debase.
  与此同时，一些违法广告的负面影响问题更成为争论的焦点。
• 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。
• Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
  政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。