Corruption
[kə'rʌpʃ(ə)n] or [kə'rʌpʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); 'he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering'.
(noun.) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; 'corruption of a minor'; 'the big city's subversion of rural innocence'.
(noun.) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; 'the luxury and corruption among the upper classes'; 'moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration'; 'its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity'; 'Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction'.
(noun.) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).
卡尔文校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
(n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
(n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
(n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
整理:洛蒂
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Putrefaction, putrescence.[2]. Defilement, contamination, pollution, infection, vitiation, adulteration, debasement.[3]. Depravity, depravation, wickedness, demoralization, immorality, laxity, looseness of morals, want of principle.
錄入:昆西
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness,defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination,putrefaction
ANT:Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration
錄入:莉娜
例句/造句/用法:
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Quite late in his life he began a series of outspoken criticisms of the corruption of the clergy and the unwisdom of the church. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It almost supersedes the Bible-' 'Yes--Flux of Corruption,' said the Russian, 'I remember that phrase. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What we should use, we let him abuse, and the corruption of the best things, as Hume remarked, produces the worst. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It promised that it would stop this evil practice, drive out corruption here, and prosecute this-and-that offense. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was supposed to have died in battle, but ten days afterwards his body was found untouched by corruption and sent home for burial. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Presently a smoke rose about our feet--a smoke that smelled of all the dead things of earth, of all the putrefaction and corruption imaginable. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moan for mine! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Mary Anne laid down her work, rose, hooked herself behind, as being under catechization, and replied: 'No, it is a corruption, Miss Peecher. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What are these corruptions? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He fell early under the spell of Rousseau; he developed sensibility and a scorn for the corruptions of civilization. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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