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When you bastardize something, you spoil it. It was good, careful, or “itself” — and then someone changes the good parts, mixes in the wrong things, or cuts what mattered, until it feels weaker, cheaper, or fake. People say this about a film that drops the heart of a book, a recipe that loses its real taste, a language pushed into an ugly mix, or a tradition sold as a toy. It is a strong, slightly angry word: you will meet it in reviews and arguments more than in everyday chat. Though actually, the older idea underneath is “make it mixed / not the true thing,” from the old noun bastard (a child born outside marriage). That is why the verb now means “spoil by changing,” not “be rude to a person.” British spelling is often bastardise.
糟蹋、使變質（把好的部分改壞。不是在罵人）
組成From bastard + -ize. Bastard came from Latin bastardus, through Old French and Middle English. -ize is the verb ending that came (through French and Late Latin) from Greek -izō, “to make.” So the verb is “to make [into] a bastard” — mixed, not the true thing — and from there, “to spoil by changing.”
同家族的字
- bastardthe base word; -ize was added to make a verb
- bastardizationthe noun for this kind of spoiling
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bastardizeverb/ˈbæstɚdaɪz/
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To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
- Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
- The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact.
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To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
- The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.
- 2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5, The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.
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To beget out of wedlock.
- I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。