debased

1. VERB 降低…的价值（或质量）；使贬值
   To debase something 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。

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。
3. The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics
   年轻人更是把他看作一位坚持原则、不会为了政治上的妥协而卑躬屈膝的人。
4. Fortune-telling is a very much debased art surrounded by superstition
   算命是一种非常低级的把戏，充满了迷信色彩。
5. Yes, that's the d'Urberville nose and chin-a little debased.
   不错，这正是德贝维尔家族的鼻子和下巴&但有一点儿衰落。
6. What followed was a spiralling proliferation of increasingly spurious credit instruments denominated in a debased currency.
   随之而来的是欺骗性越来越强的信贷工具呈螺旋式扩散，这些信贷工具是以一种贬值的货币计价的。
7. The word "sale" has been debased by shops who hold sales at all times of the year.
   减价一词因那些一年到头都在减价的商店而被贬低了含义。
8. ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
   （用于语言）纯度或优点没有降低的。
9. Those books, both prose and verse, were consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
   这些书，包括散文和诗，都由于一些别的联想，因此对于我是神圣不可侵犯的；我极不愿意这些书在他的口里被败坏亵渎！
10. The quality of life can only be debased by such a system.
    唯有这样的一种制度才会降低生活的品质。
11. It's completely wrong to say that football is boring. ( of language) not having its purity or excellence debased.
    说足球没意思，那纯属胡言乱语。（用于语言）纯度或优点没有降低的。
12. The currency might also suffer if investors feared it was being debased.
    一旦投资者担心某国货币贬值，汇率也可能受到影响。
13. For Orwell, writing in the 1940s, the language of politics was the most debased.
    奥威尔在上世纪40年代写道，政治语言最为低下。
14. His foul language is so debased that women are advised not to stay long in his presence.
    他的粗话是如此下流，以至于妇女们最好不要跟他就待。
15. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.
    如此，人自甘卑下，自甘堕落，对他们决无救援。
16. The stone's true sphere and spirit lost, It takes a new form stinking and debased.
    失去幽灵真境界，幻来新就臭皮囊。
17. They have debased and defiled the purity of the tongue.
    他们亵渎玷污了这种语言的纯洁性。
18. To some, this is yet another case of debased government figures.
    对一些人而言，这又只是一个被政府加工过的数据而已。
19. And the miners were debased by the poverty that eroded ambition and pride. Social security system can be set up gradually in regions with good conditions so as to reduce the rate of falling back to poverty again.
    因为穷困，矿工们的身价降低了，他们的雄心和骄傲也被贫穷所侵蚀。有条件的地方，逐步建立社会保障制度，降低返贫率。
20. A debased or despised condition.
    卑微或受鄙视的状态卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
21. You just completely debased and humiliated him.
    你彻底贬低侮辱了他。
22. Mine is a debased condition, but is at least perfectly normal.
    我这种状况有些粗鄙，但至少是非常正常的。
23. Our world view has become debased we no longer have a sense of the sacred.
    我们的世界观堕落了。我们不再有神圣感了。
24. Except when Greek offered resistance, all natural languages had been forced to yield to a debased latin;
    凡在希腊语没有进行抵抗的地方，一切民族语言都不得不让位于被败坏的拉丁语；
25. The Gang of Four really debased our standards of social conduct.
    现在，四人帮确实把我们的风气搞坏了。
26. Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
    体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。
27. Reagan debased all these ideas and modern American conservatism is still suffering the consequences.
    里根摒弃了所有这些思想现代美国保守主义至今仍在承受由此产生的后果。
28. Taxes were regularized, tariffs lifted, private mints abolished and the debased currency restored.
    税收调整了，关税提高了，私人造币厂废除了，贬值货币恢复了。
29. Eclecticism flourished in the19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
    折衷主义风格流行于19世纪，尽管贬低了很多，但还是存活了下来，出现在现代防卫型社区和郊外屋村住宅中。

adj

1. ruined in character or quality

   Synonym:    corruptedvitiated

2. lowered in value
   1. the dollar is low
   2. a debased currency

   Synonym:    devalueddegraded

3. mixed with impurities

   Synonym:    adulterateadulterated