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

• 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。
• If you can't pay your debts, debase your currency.
  如果你不能还债，那就把降低币值。
• 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。
• The aim of job shop scheduling optimization is not only to reduce makespan, to improve production efficiency, but also to debase operating cost as a important factor.
  采用改进的遗传算法结合神经网络，以生产周期和生产费用为双目标，实施调度优化。
• China will keep on helping out, they say, though it knows the US will have to debase the dollar.
  他们表示，中国将继续提供帮助，尽管中国知道美国将不得不让美元贬值。
• 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。
• For a man will not debase himself by work, which requires neither skill nor courage. ( No.187)
  一个人不会因既不要求技巧也不要求勇气的工作而贬低自己。
• SYSTEM it designed the domain knowledge debase;
  设计了系统的领域知识库；
• Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'
  政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
• We trust that the central bank does not debase it.
  我们信任央行不会降低货币的价值。