Debase

(verb.) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content.

校对:拉里

• In Syria there were slaves in sufficient quantity to make real buildings, but the artistic spirit is as debased as anything made by machinery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is simply saying that the negro mind has been more crushed and debased than the white. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• This entertainment, which might be considered as a school of military virtue, was succeeded by a farce that debased the dignity of human nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And when I see or hear either man or woman couple shame with love, I know their minds are coarse, their associations debased. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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