喜樂美語
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    If you debase something, you make it worth less, or you make people respect it less. The old, strict use was about money: a ruler debased the coins by mixing in cheap metal, so each coin bought less. People still say this about a currency. Then the word stretched. You can debase an office by acting badly in it, debase a language by being careless with it, or debase yourself by doing something you know is low. It is a formal, rather severe word. You would not use it for a small everyday drop in price.

    貶低；使貶值

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組成de- (down) + base (low), from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Making something “more low.”

同家族的字

  • basethe adjective meaning “low” or “not noble,” as in base motives
  • abaseto lower someone, often in pride or dignity; built on the same “low” base

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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debaseverb/dɪˈbeɪs/

  • 1

    To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

    • And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.
  • 2

    archaicTo lower in position or rank.

  • 3

    To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

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。