Decadent
['dekəd(ə)nt] or ['dɛkədənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically).
(adj.) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; 'a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility'; 'a group of effete self-professed intellectuals' .
阿伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Decaying; deteriorating.
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Closely related to the constitution and just as decadent to-day are the Sanctity of Private Property, Vested Rights, Competition the Life of Trade, Prosperity (at any cost). 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The report happens to embody what I conceive to be most of the faults of a political method now decadent. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All other nations were represented as incompetent and decadent; the Prussians were the leaders and regenerators of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Like all inventions it will disturb deeply the classicalist tendency, and this disturbance may generate a new impulse to replace the decadent one of the pioneer. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is all purely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To-day, however, it represents but a decadent type, being largely supplanted by the superior advantages of electricity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- When we are asked to think of the Republic as the reaction of decadent Greece upon the conservative temperament of Plato, the function of theory is given a new illumination. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
手打:凯勒