词汇释义

debase  TEM8  GRE

UK  /dɪˈbeɪs/ US  /dɪˈbeɪs/

verb, to make someone or something lose its value or people’s respec.降低（价值），贬低（声望）

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外刊例句

1. “We today pay attention to a business’s profits; the deeper question is whether the business ennobles or debases human existence,” Mr. Boisture said.(New York Times)

2. “Perhaps he even thinks this helps him politically, though we can’t imagine how. But Mr. Trump is debasing his office, and he’s hurting the country in doing so.”(New York Times)

3. Republicans in recent years criticized the Fed for keeping interest rates low, which they said risked debasing the dollar and sparking runaway inflation.(Washington Post)

4. “He debased French people, who are our allies in NATO,” lawmaker Jan Grabiec, the party’s spokesman, said.(Seattle Times)

5. This was a refreshing break from the usual Republican talking points on the Fed, which bash low interest rates for “debasing” the currency.(The New Yorker)

6. In America, some Republicans think that QE is debasing the currency and will eventually lead to inflation.(TheEconomist)

7. You’ve reached a healthy equilibrium when you like your job, but you don’t need your job, and you’d never debase yourself to keep it.(Forbes)

8. “Conflict-of-interest” myths debase the medical products industry and healthcare professionals who interact with it.（Forbes）

9. I do not ‘insist’ that taxation and regulation debase the rights of the individual, it is a tautology.(TheEconomist)

10. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.(The Guardian)

11. They're debasing as well it's it's helping their export industry at the expense of domestic consumption.(TheEconomist)

12. Yet Bernanke's capacity to deliver on such heightened expectations is greatly constrained, not least by growing criticism at home from the Republican right that Fed activism is debasing the dollar.(Reuters)

词汇搭配

debase people, yourself, currency

词汇家族

debases, debased, debasing, debasement

词汇来源

1560s, "lower in position, rank, or dignity, impair morally," from de- "down" + base (adj.) "low," on analogy of abase (or, alternatively, from obsolete verb base "to abuse"). From 1590s as "lower in quality or value" (of currency, etc.), "degrade, adulterate."

近义词

abase, bastardize, disgrace, dishonor, cheapen, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate

反义词

aggrandize, canonize, deify, elevate, exalt, ennoble

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