Debase
[ dɪ'bes ]
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vt. 降低质量（地位、价格等）;降低（硬币的）价值，贬值;
💡 词根助记
de降低+base低下，基础 → 降低
📝 例句
You must not debase yourself by such behavior.
你不可以这样的行为来降低自己的人格。
To lower in moral or intellectual character;debase.
降低…品格降低…的道德水准，或降低…的身份；有损…的人格
debase the value of the dollar
使美元贬值
Greed had debased his character.
贪婪降低了他的品格。
To corrupt morally;debase.
道德败坏；使堕落
🌱 联想助记
【记】de-前缀“向下、完全、除去”,base-低:基础向下即贬低
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
🔤 词根
-base-表示“中间”
📖 牛津释义
debase
v[Tn]
1 lower the quality, status or value of (sth) 降低（某物的）质量、 地位或价值
Sport is being debased by commercialism. 体育运动的价值受商业化影响而逐渐下降.
You debase yourself by telling such lies. 你说这些谎话就降低了身分.
2 lower the value of (coins) by using less valuable metal in them 降低（硬币的）价值（减少含贵金属的成色）.
🔁 扩展释义
*[di'beis]vt. 贬低, 降低
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Yes.
是的。
I have been told you have just changed the interest rate on savings accounts. Is that true?
听说你们储蓄率刚调过，是真的吗？
Mrs.Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the metre.
理查兹夫人这才想到一定是供电局来人查电表了。