debase
vt. 降低質量(地位、價格等); 降低(硬幣的)價值,貶值
To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
政客們貶低了“自由”一詞的意義。
He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他說議會和民主程式已遭貶值。
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.
你不可以這樣的行為來降低自己的人格.
You debase yourself by telling such lies.
你說這些謊話就降低了身份.
You must not debase yourself by such conduct.
你千萬不要用這樣的行為貶低你自己.
Lower and debase myself for the amusement total strangers?
你這一步走得不錯.-你 呢 ?
If this goes on, it will debase Mao Zedong Thought.
這樣搞下去, 要損害毛澤東思想.