| 词汇 | compromised |
| 释义 | compromised past simple and past participle ofcompromise compromise verb uk /ˈkɒm.prə.maɪz/ us /ˈkɑːm.prə.maɪz/ compromiseverb (AGREEMENT)B2[ I ] to accept that you will reduce your demands or change your opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone: 妥协；折中；让步 Party unity is threatened when members will not compromise.成员们不愿妥协，党内团结受到了威胁。 Well, you want $400 and I say $300, so let's compromise at/on $350.好吧，你要价400美元，我说300美元，那我们就来个折中价350美元。 Somebody will have to compromise if we are to break the deadlock between the two warring factions. The reluctance of either side to compromise means that the talks are doomed to fail. The antagonists in this dispute are quite unwilling to compromise.这场争端中的各方均不愿妥协。 The dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.由于双方都不肯让步，争端陷入僵局。 They have become irreconcilable, with both sides refusing to compromise any further.他们双方都拒绝进一步妥协，和解已经不可能了。 Accepting & agreeing reluctantly accede to something acceptance acquiescence be resigned to somethingidiom bend to something bow bow down to someone cave in concede crack like it or lump itidiom resign yourself to something resignation resigned resignedly resort to something settle for something shoulder tolerate trade something off compromiseverb (LOWER STANDARDS)[ T ]disapproving to allow your principles to be less strong or your standards or morals to be lower: 放弃;背离，违背;降低 Don't compromise your beliefs/principles for the sake of being accepted.不要为了得到别人的认同就放弃了你自己的信仰／原则。 If we back down on this issue, our reputation will be compromised.如果我们在这个问题上打退堂鼓的话，会有损我们的声誉。 His political career ended when he compromised himself by accepting bribes.他的政治生涯因他收受贿赂而宣告结束。 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom debase dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom indignity shoddy stoop stoop to something undignified compromiseverb (HARM)C2[ T ] to risk having a harmful effect on something: 损害，伤害，危及 We would never compromise the safety of our passengers.我们永远不会做有损乘客安全的事。 Taking risks adventurer all in be skating on thin iceidiom bet the farm/ranchidiom broke dare expose hazard high wire high-stakes imperil jeopardize lay re-expose risk run the risk of doing somethingidiom sail sail close to the windidiom skate sniper's alley Examples of compromisedcompromised In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The leadership compromised but refused to hold an open primary. Since the human samples available for analysis are non-viable discarded material, they are potentially compromised. At a more clinical level, virtually all cognitive screening tests have a correlation with compromised driving ability. The drawback of this system was that precision was compromised. To know, for example, whether the autonomy of potential donors is compromised in practice, ethicists need to engage in empirical research. She maintained that any literary merit (in both artistic and populist terms) of the series was enhanced rather than compromised by its educational aims. The resulting problem seemed stark, if not insurmountable: while subjugation compromised attempts at assimilation, assimilation would falter in the absence of the necessary transformation. He cannot write, and even speech itself is for him, as for no other character, compromised and self-evidently imperfect. Various "mismatches" have compromised the fruitfulness of the exchanges, however. Current funding for intervention services for troubled adolescents seems to have produced a horribly fractionated and compromised approach to intervention. For older freelancers, then, the occupation was found to be an increasingly strenuous and compromised endeavour, and it was undertaken for ever-diminishing returns. Since in the short run capital markets remained guarded, exchange rates fundamentally fixed and monetary independence protected, the actual process of adjustment was seriously compromised. The glomerular lesions and disappearance of glomeruli compromised the renal function of these animals, a fact reflected in raised serum potassium and urea concentrations. However, would the personal courage of individual physicians be sufficient to assure that availability of medical care would not be compromised? A person's capacity cannot be compromised because they hold peculiar or perhaps irrational views on life. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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