debasing的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB降低…的价值（或质量）；使贬值

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。