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When we call a person, an act, or a taste depraved, we mean it is morally rotten — so far from what most people think is right that it feels cruel, dirty, or broken at the heart. It is a heavy word.
When we call當我們說 a person, an act, or a taste一個人、一個行為，或一種品味 depraved depraved we mean我們的意思是 it is morally rotten它道德敗壞 so far from what most people think is right離大多數人認為對的事情太遠 that it feels cruel, dirty, or broken at the heart讓人覺得殘忍、骯髒，或內心已經壞掉了 It is這是 a heavy word一個很重的詞
Courts and newspapers use it for crimes that shock people, not for a small lie or a rude joke.
Courts and newspapers法院和報紙 use it會用這個字 for crimes that shock people來形容令人震驚的罪行 not for a small lie or a rude joke而不是一個小謊言或粗魯的玩笑
Though actually, speakers also stretch it. Friends may call a film, a joke, or even someone's food choices depraved, half as a laugh, when they only mean “weird” or “a bit nasty.” In serious talk it still means “morally wrecked,” not “a bit bad.” It describes the person or the act; the name of that state is .
Though actually不過事實上 speakers also stretch it說話的人也會把這個字用得比較鬆 Friends朋友之間 may call a film, a joke, or even someone's food choices可能會說一部電影、一個玩笑，甚至某人吃的東西depraved half as a laugh帶點開玩笑的意思 when they only mean其實只是想說 "weird" or "a bit nasty"「很怪」或「有點噁心」 In serious talk在正經場合 it still means它還是指 "morally wrecked," not "a bit bad"「道德上壞透了」，不是「有點壞」 It describes它形容的是 the person or the act這個人或這個行為 the name of that state那個狀態的名詞 is depravity叫做depravity
組成From Latin: a prefix that pushes the meaning all the way (“completely”) plus an old piece meaning “crooked” or “wrong” — not a little off, but bent through.
同家族的字
- depravitythe noun: the state of being depraved
原始詞典資料4 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。
depravedadj/dɪˈpɹeɪvd/
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Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
- a depraved killer
- The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.
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Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.
- You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
- I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.
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archaicDistorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
- The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
- There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。