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To spoil something good by making it cheap, coarse, or low in quality. You vulgarize a poem, a ceremony, a piece of music, a beautiful place — usually by making it loud, simple, or commercial so it will sell. The word contains a judgement, and it is a strong one; the speaker is saying that something fine has been dragged down. It is formal and mostly written, so in ordinary talk people say 'cheapen', 'ruin', or 'dumb down' instead. As with the noun, there is an older use meaning 'put hard ideas into everyday words for ordinary readers', with no insult at all — but today most English readers will hear the negative sense first, so use 'popularize' or 'simplify' when you mean the kind version. British spelling: 'vulgarise'.
使庸俗化；把（好東西）弄得低俗
組成vulgar + -ize. 'Vulgar' is from Latin 'vulgus', the common crowd — originally 'belonging to ordinary people', later 'coarse, in poor taste'. '-ize' means 'make it become that'.
同家族的字
- vulgarthe word this verb is built from
- vulgarizationthe noun naming the process
- divulgealso from Latin 'vulgus' — to spread news out to the crowd
原始詞典資料2 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。
vulgarizeverb
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To make vulgar.
- With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much - our land, as we shall ever fondly call it.
- "Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued, "the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."
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To make vulgar.
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。