Degrade

(verb.) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth.

(verb.) reduce the level of land, as by erosion.

丹整理

• She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his, and that to cross it or meet him half-way would be to degrade herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You wouldn't degrade yourself that way, Emily? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And if so, who would receive gold on condition that he was to degrade the noblest part of himself under the worst? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If you have any mercy left, don't let me degrade myself in this way! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Nothing of that sort can degrade you--you ennoble the occupation of your husband. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Do not degrade me in my own eyes, she said; poverty has long been my nurse; hard-visaged she is, but honest. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• You would not expect him actually to perform those degrading acts? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• There is no office too degrading for them to perform, for money. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• That too is why debating is such a wretched amusement and most partisanship, most controversy, so degrading. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• We are indebted to that for seeing a woman like Dorothea degrading herself by marrying him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Gradually certain stimuli are selected because of their relevancy, and others are degraded. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We shall not then be degraded from our true characters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Excuse my being a little out of temper; I'm degraded in my own estimation--I have let Rosanna Spearman puzzle me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The knowledge it brings you is bought too dear, Monsieur; this coming and going by stealth degrades your own dignity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It degrades to stoop; it is glorious to look up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the European cities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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