corrupt

[kə'rʌpt]

adj.腐败的, 堕落的, 讹误的
vt.贿赂, 使恶化, 使腐烂
vi.腐败, 腐烂

例句与用法:

It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they were facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife.

作为法官与地方官,是否独身关系并不大。因为只要他们身边有一个坏的幕僚,其进谗言的能力就足以抵上五个妻子。

Bad habit corrupt good manners.

坏习惯败坏好风俗。

Democracy substitute election by the incompetent many for appointment by corrupt few.

民主主义以由无能的大多数作出的选举来代替腐败的少数作出的委任。

She wrote a book declaiming against our corrupt society.

她写了一本书抨击我们这腐败的社会。

词形变化:

形容词: corruptive | 副词: corruptly | 名词: corrupter | 动词过去式: corrupted | 动词过去分词: corrupted | 动词现在分词: corrupting | 动词第三人称单数: corrupts |

详细释义:

a.

1. 腐败的, 贪污的

The corrupt judge dismissed the case without a hearing.

腐败的法官没有听审就驳回了这个案子。

2. 堕落的, 邪恶的

He led a corrupt life.

他过着堕落的生活。

3. (语言、版本等)讹误的, 走样的

The islanders here speak a corrupt form of French.

这儿的岛民讲一种不标准的法语。

4. 污浊的, 不洁的

vt.

1. 使腐败, 使堕落; 贿赂, 收买

It was power that corrupted him.

是权力腐蚀了他。

2. 讹用(词语); 窜改(原稿)

He copied the text carelessly so that it was corrupted.

他抄写原文时很粗心, 以致出现讹误。

vi.

1. 堕落; 腐化

Complete power corrupts completely.

绝对的权力造成绝对的腐败。

2. 腐坏, 腐烂