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

• The second is to upgrade the value of some texts, and debase the others by classification, and comment on his writing afresh.
  二是通过分类，提升某些文本的价值，淡化另一些文本的意义，对其创作的定位进行重新评述。
• But admittedly it's difficult to debase sensibly with people who have no common background or understanding of the subject.
  但是，不可否认，我们很难有效地降低那些对SchH没有基本常识和理解的人们。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• Using protection cast process in the whole course to debase the content of gas and inclusion.
  采用全程保护浇注工艺降低气体和夹杂物含量；
• 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。
• 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。
• It would be wrong to fail to realize this and to debase the politics and the statesmen of the proletariat.
  不认识这一点，把无产阶级的政治和政治家庸俗化，是不对的。