debased
adj. 下賤的,品質惡劣的
v. 降低質量(地位、價格等)( debase的過去式和過去分詞 ); 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. mixed with impurities
2. lowered in value;
3. ruined in character or quality
Politicians have debased the meaning of the word "freedom"
政客們貶低了“自由”一詞的意義。
Fortune-telling is a very much debased art surrounded by superstition.
算命是一種非常低階的把戲,充滿了迷信色彩。
Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
體育運動因受商業贊助而降低了聲譽。
The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
持久的戰爭使美元貶值.
The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics.
年輕人更是把他看作一位堅持原則、不會為了政治上的妥協而卑躬屈膝的人。