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

• There exists an incentive to debase the currency. The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.
  存在货币贬值的动机。统治者会尽可能降低货币的含金量。国家目前的困难是因为货币贬值引起的。
• This is liable to alienate them from the masses and the lower-ranking cadres, and even to corrupt their family members, debase the general standard of social conduct and make it impossible to overcome bureaucracy.
  这样就要脱离群众，脱离干部，甚至腐蚀自己的子女和家庭，把风气带坏了，官僚主义也无法克服。
• '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。
• 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。
• 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。
• SYSTEM it designed the domain knowledge debase;
  设计了系统的领域知识库；
• 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。
• You debase yourself by telling such lies.
  你说这些谎话就降低了身份。
• 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。
• If you debase the quantity and deliver goods of imperfect goods to us, we will refuse to accept them.
  如果贵公司降低品质并且发送有质量问题的货品给我们，我们将拒收。