debase
vt. 降低质量(地位、价格等); 降低(硬币的)价值,贬值
To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
2. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
3. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;
You must not debase yourself by such behavior.
你不可以这样的行为来降低自己的人格.
You debase yourself by telling such lies.
你说这些谎话就降低了身份.
You must not debase yourself by such conduct.
你千万不要用这样的行为贬低你自己.
Lower and debase myself for the amusement total strangers?
你这一步走得不错.-你 呢 ?
If this goes on, it will debase Mao Zedong Thought.
这样搞下去, 要损害毛泽东思想.