| 词汇 | deprave |
| 释义 | deprave verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈpreɪv/ us /dɪˈpreɪv/ to make someone depraved使堕落，使恶毒 Synonyms corrupt debase debauch pervertdisapproving Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something But let nobody conclude therefore that Mr Redford is a monster, whose policy it is to deprave the theatre. I do not know anything that more effectually depraves and ruins their moral and religious principles. I speak from observation when I say that infants, whose habits have not been depraved, will not prefer hot bread of any kind. It is by metaphor. They alter, they force, they deprave the meaning of three or four words, and all is done. Examples of depravedeprave It is founded on a crude portrayal of the eighteenth century as violent, drunken, corrupt and depraved. Put together properly, it could produce a sensible, if uncompelling argument, but by the depraving touch of the babu it degenerates into unmitigated drivel. Since each created being is transworld depraved, each will perform at least one wrong action. But we showed that there is no convincing argument that there exists a world in which every essence is transworld depraved. Displaying themselves as careful, they give unnecessary instructions, investing so many hours, depraving so many spirits, which when invested in fruitful art give great fruits. So, the argument goes, the taste of the common reader is insensibly depraved; newspapers and the cinema assist the trend. I argue that, given an infinite number of possible persons, the probability that everyone is transworld depraved is exceedingly low. The rebels were - depending on one's point of view - selfless patriots, nihilist fanatics, or depraved thugs. Each society and culture is convinced that its own drugs of choice are normal and natural; and that those of other societies are depraved and unnatural. Was everyone totally depraved and evil or, as seemed from time to time, was there some decency and goodness? I then utilize my principle to show that, given certain plausible assumptions pertaining to the number of possible persons, the probability that everyone is transworld depraved is zero. Buying and selling each other is depraved. It is not eminently or reasonably obvious to most people whether they have been corrupted or depraved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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