cheapening

英 [ˈtʃiːpənɪŋ]

美 [ˈtʃiːpənɪŋ]

v.  使丧失威信; 使贬低; 降低…的价格; 使贬值; 贬低
cheapen的现在分词

现在分词：cheapening　

COCA.44741

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使有失身价;使降低身份;使贬值
  If somethingcheapensa person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
  1. When America boycotted the Moscow Olympics it cheapened the medals won...
     美国抵制莫斯科奥运会的行为使金牌的含金量降低了。
  2. Love is a word cheapened by overuse.
     “爱”这个字眼用得太滥不值钱了。

双语例句

• Far from cheapening nature, thinking in terms of "natural capital" can offer a way to assess the crucial but unmeasured benefit that humans derive from the nature.
  从自然资本这一角度考虑可以为评估人类从大自然获取的重要的但无法衡量的利益提供一种方式，而不是贬低大自然的价值。
• And far from cheapening life, this sort of research often highlights just how valuable our safer, healthier modern lives really are.
  这远非贬低生命的价值，此类研究往往突显出，我们的更安全、健康的现代生活，到底有多么珍贵。
• As predicted by many prescient persons, the cheapening of life that began with abortion has now metastasized.
  正如许多有先见之明的人所预言的那样，从堕胎开始的对生命的䌀值，如今已经扩散到其他领域了。
• It's only cheapening yourself to behave like that.
  那样做只能使你自贬身价。
• So both scenarios draw a future of both big returns and cheapening valuations, all courtesy of strong earnings.
  在这两家公司对未来的预期中，回报率都很高，估值水平都会下降，这都得益于利润的强劲增长。
• It is not by improving skin foods and point rollers, by cheapening health motors and electrical hair-removers, that the human race will be made beautiful;
  人类不能通过改进护肤品和卷发器或通过降低健身机和电动除毛器的价格使自己更美起来。
• Yet the advances in information technology ( IT) and the dramatic cheapening of computing power that lay behind that surge have had much less effect on Europe's productivity.
  然而，在其生产率剧增的背后真正的原因是其在信息技术上（IT）的领先，以及由于其计算机使用能力普及而显著降低的费用，而这些因素对欧洲生产率则影响甚少。