debase

英 [dɪˈbeɪs]

美 [dɪˈbeɪs]

v.  降低…的价值; 败坏…的名誉

过去分词：debased　现在分词：debasing　过去式：debased　第三人称单数：debases　

GRETEM8

BNC.22131 / COCA.22355

牛津词典

verb

• 降低…的价值；败坏…的名誉
  to make sb/sth less valuable or respected
  1. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
     体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 降低…的价值（或质量）；使贬值
  Todebasesomething means to reduce its value or quality.
  1. Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
     政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
  2. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
     他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。

英英释义

verb

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  1. adulterate liquor
  Synonym:loadadulteratestretchdilute
• lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
  Synonym:alloy
• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  1. debauch the young people with wine and women
  2. Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
  3. Do school counselors subvert young children?
  4. corrupt the morals
  Synonym:corruptpervertsubvertdemoralizedemoralisedebauchprofanevitiatedepravemisdirect

双语例句

• Fried fast food restaurant in Hamburg is not debase themselves, your grandparents fried Hamburg right is completely different from the definition.
  在速食店煎个汉堡并不是作贱自己，你的祖父母对煎汉堡有完全不同的定义。
• China will keep on helping out, they say, though it knows the US will have to debase the dollar.
  他们表示，中国将继续提供帮助，尽管中国知道美国将不得不让美元贬值。
• You debase yourself by telling such lies.
  你说这些谎话就降低了身份。
• It is prohibited to debase or injure women's personal dignity by public media or otherwise.
  禁止通过大众传播媒介或者其他方式贬低损害妇女人格。
• If you debase the quantity and deliver goods of imperfect goods to us, we will refuse to accept them.
  如果贵公司降低品质并且发送有质量问题的货品给我们，我们将拒收。
• He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
  他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
• It would be wrong to fail to realize this and to debase the politics and the statesmen of the proletariat.
  不认识这一点，把无产阶级的政治和政治家庸俗化，是不对的。
• The aim of job shop scheduling optimization is not only to reduce makespan, to improve production efficiency, but also to debase operating cost as a important factor.
  采用改进的遗传算法结合神经网络，以生产周期和生产费用为双目标，实施调度优化。
• At the same time, the negative effect of some illegal advertisements becomes the focus of public debase.
  与此同时，一些违法广告的负面影响问题更成为争论的焦点。
• But admittedly it's difficult to debase sensibly with people who have no common background or understanding of the subject.
  但是，不可否认，我们很难有效地降低那些对SchH没有基本常识和理解的人们。