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

• Using protection cast process in the whole course to debase the content of gas and inclusion.
  采用全程保护浇注工艺降低气体和夹杂物含量；
• 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。
• There exists an incentive to debase the currency. The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.
  存在货币贬值的动机。统治者会尽可能降低货币的含金量。国家目前的困难是因为货币贬值引起的。
• The second is to upgrade the value of some texts, and debase the others by classification, and comment on his writing afresh.
  二是通过分类，提升某些文本的价值，淡化另一些文本的意义，对其创作的定位进行重新评述。
• The research of this thesis indicates that to debase the speculation and the swelling stock bubbles of Chinese stock market, the fundamentally measure is to complete the shareholders'voting rights.
  本文的研究最终证明，中国股市非均衡状态的根本原因之一即在于投资者投票权的非完备性。
• 'We didn't mean to debase our nationals, but sometimes they have gone too far', one employee said.
  我们没有贬低国人的意思，但是有时候他们做的太过分了，一名雇员说道。
• Yet it seems counter-intuitive that bond markets, with their traditional fear of inflation, should punish a country for not being able to debase its currency.
  不过，向来害怕通胀的债券市场应该因为一国无法使本币贬值而惩罚它，这听起来似乎有违常理。
• New style lifting presser foot is very easy and reliable, can debase the malfunction rate greatly, and the operation is very convenient and agile;
  简单可靠的新型抬压脚结构，大大降低故障率，操作方便灵活。
• You debase yourself by telling such lies.
  你说这些谎话就降低了身份。
• This week he accused Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, of devising an "almost treasonous" plan to debase the dollar, a common concern among tea-party types.
  这星期他控告美联储的主席本南柯以一个基本不忠的计划使美元贬值，这在茶话会上是一个普遍的担忧。