Debase
[dɪ'beɪs] or [dɪ'bes]
解釋/意思:
(a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
科尔校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Lower, depress, reduce, deteriorate, impair, vitiate, injure, pervert, alloy.[2]. Degrade, abase, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, mortify, bring low, take down.[3]. Contaminate, taint, defile, pollute, foul, befoul, corrupt, soil.
埃利斯手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Degrade, lower, depress, deprave, deteriorate, corrupt, alloy, impair,disgrace, humble
ANT:Raise, enhance, exalt, honor, promote, ameliorate, purify, improve
整理:洛厄尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lower: to make mean or of less value: to adulterate.—adj. Debased′ degraded: (her.) reversed.—n. Debase′ment degradation.—adj. Debas′ing tending to lower or degrade.—adv. Debas′ingly.
黛布拉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- In Syria there were slaves in sufficient quantity to make real buildings, but the artistic spirit is as debased as anything made by machinery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This is simply saying that the negro mind has been more crushed and debased than the white. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- This entertainment, which might be considered as a school of military virtue, was succeeded by a farce that debased the dignity of human nature. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And when I see or hear either man or woman couple shame with love, I know their minds are coarse, their associations debased. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
胡安娜校對