Corrupt
[kə'rʌpt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) alter from the original.
(verb.) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; 'debauch the young people with wine and women'; 'Socrates was accused of corrupting young men'; 'Do school counselors subvert young children?'; 'corrupt the morals'.
(adj.) lacking in integrity; 'humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation'; 'a corrupt and incompetent city government' .
(adj.) touched by rot or decay; 'tainted bacon'; '`corrupt' is archaic' .
(adj.) containing errors or alterations; 'a corrupt text'; 'spoke a corrupted version of the language' .
編輯:纳内特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
(a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
(a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
(v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
(v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
(v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
(v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
(v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
(v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
安吉莉娜整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Putrefy, render putrid.[2]. Contaminate, taint, defile, pollute, infect, vitiate, spoil, adulterate, sophisticate, debase.[3]. Deprave, demoralize.
a. [1]. Corrupted, infected, spoiled, tainted, vitiated, putrid, contaminated, unsound.[2]. Depraved, wicked, vicious, dissolute, profligate, reprobate, abandoned.
安吉拉校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected,tainted, profligate, contaminated
ANT:Pure, uncorrupt, undented
SYN:Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile,contaminate, pollute, deprave
ANT:Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better
安塞姆校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make putrid: to defile: to mar: to debase: to bribe.—v.i. to rot: to lose purity.—adj. putrid: depraved: defiled: not genuine: full of errors.—ns. Corrupt′er; Corruptibil′ity Corrupt′ibleness.—adj. Corrupt′ible liable to be corrupted.—adv. Corrupt′ibly.—ns. Corrup′tion rottenness: putrid matter: impurity: bribery; Corrup′tionist one who defends or who practises corruption.—adj. Corrupt′ive having the quality of corrupting.—adv. Corrupt′ly.—n. Corrupt′ness.
手打:利奥波德
例句/造句/用法:
- Art cannot claim to be on a level with philosophy or religion, and may often corrupt them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She said not, but who could tell what was truth which came from those lips, or if that corrupt heart was in this case pure? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Master Allan Stewart, friend to Captain James Stewart of Cardonall, by means of the Queen's corrupted court, obtained the Abbey of Crossraguel. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Her residence in Milton has quite corrupted her. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And we do not deny that they are very liable to be corrupted; but yet surely in the course of ages there might be one exception--and one is enough. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- When the higher natures are corrupted by politics, the lower take possession of the vacant place of philosophy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We are positively corrupting people. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The soul too has her own corrupting principles, which are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and the like. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Would you agree with me in thinking that the corrupting and destroying element is the evil, and the saving and improving element the good? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Well, I said, and is there no evil which corrupts the soul? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
編輯:默里