The verb is pronounced /pə'vɜːt/. The noun is pronounced /'pɜːvɜːt/. 动词读作/pə'vɜːt/, 名词读作/'pɜːvɜːt/。
- VERB 破坏;颠覆;使走样;误导
If you pervert something such as a process or society, you interfere with it so that it is not as good as it used to be or as it should be.
- Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution...
任何改革都会破坏并歪曲我们的宪法。 - He perverted her mind.
他误导了她的思想。
- PHRASE 妨碍司法公正
If someone perverts the course of justice, they deliberately do something that will make it difficult to discover who really committed a particular crime, for example, destroying evidence or lying to the police.
- He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
他被控谋划妨碍司法公正。
- 性变态者
If you say that someone is a pervert, you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable.