• vt. 使墮落；使腐敗

de-, 向下，離開。-prav, 彎的，扭曲的，詞源可能同crook,curve, 字母c,p音變。引申詞義變態(tài)，墮落。

deprave (v.)

late 14c., "corrupt, lead astray, pervert," from Old French depraver (14c.) or directly from Latin depravare "distort, disfigure;" figuratively "to pervert, seduce, corrupt," from de- "completely" (see de-) + pravus "crooked." Related: Depraved; depraving.

1. In my view this book would deprave young children.

我認(rèn)為這本書會(huì)腐蝕兒童。

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. Do sadistic films deprave the viewers?

有關(guān)**待的電影能使觀眾墮落 嗎 ?

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. Pornography is defined by its ` tendency to deprave or corrupt '.

是不是色情作品,要看它有沒有‘誘人墮落或傷風(fēng)敗俗的傾向 ’.

來(lái)自辭典例句

4. The habit of lying sometimes deprave a child's character.

說(shuō)謊的習(xí)慣有時(shí)會(huì)敗壞兒童的品格.

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5. We deprave straw with ordinary compost method, and find out optimum condition of straw depravity.

本文通過正交設(shè)計(jì)法對(duì)秸稈進(jìn)行普通堆肥方式的腐解, 從而選擇出秸桿腐解的最佳條件.

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