corrupt

英 [kə'rʌpt] 美 [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

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 堕落的,腐败的,贪赃舞弊的

   dishonest, esp. through accepting bribes

2. 不道德的

   immoral

3. (语言)转讹的; 改动太多的

   (of language) containing errors or changes

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)败坏,(使)腐化

   make corrupt; become corrupt

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 腐败的，贪污的
2. 堕落的
3. 污浊的，不洁的
4. 腐烂的
5. 道德败坏的，品行坏的，邪恶的
6. 讹误的，错误百出的
7. 不可靠的
8. 败坏的
9. 走样的

v. 动词

1. 使腐败，行贿，贿赂，收买
2. 使堕落，使颓废
3. 使腐化，使腐烂，使腐坏，腐蚀
4. 讹用，使讹误，窜改，篡改，抄错，印错，转述错
5. 损坏，损害，破坏，玷污，使恶化
6. 变腐败，腐化，堕落

英英释义

Adjective:

1. lacking in integrity;

   "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"
   "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
   

2. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

3. containing errors or alterations;

   "a corrupt text"
   "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
   

4. touched by rot or decay;

   "tainted bacon"
   "`corrupt' is archaic"
   

Verb:

1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;

   "debauch the young people with wine and women"
   "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"
   "Do school counselors subvert young children?"
   "corrupt the morals"
   

2. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence;

   "This judge can be bought"
   

3. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;

   "sully someone's reputation"
   

4. alter from the original

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. The official led a corrupt life.
   这个官员过着堕落的生活。
4. The manuscript is so corrupt that parts of it make no sense at all.
   这稿子由于讹误太多，以致有的部分意义不明。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. He was sent to prison for trying to corrupt a policeman with money.
   他因为试图用钱贿赂一名警察而被送入监狱。
2. Bad habit corrupt good manners.
   坏习惯败坏好风俗。
3. Bad company may corrupt a good boy.
   跟坏人在一起会使好孩子变坏。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. Complete power corrupts completely.
   绝对的权力造成绝对的腐败。
2. They left the bodies to corrupt on the field .
   他们让尸体在战场上腐烂。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. One corrupt apple corrupts many sound ones.
   一个烂苹果可使许多好苹果变坏。
2. The corrupt policeman accepted the money.
   那个贪污的警察收了钱。
3. The thief led a corrupt life.
   这个窃贼过着堕落的生活。
4. They spoke a corrupt form of French.
   他们讲的是变了调的法文。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. This judge is corrupt.
   这个法官贪污。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The body corrupted quite quickly.
   尸体很快腐烂了。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Bad company may corrupt a good boy.
   跟坏人在一起会使好孩子变坏。
2. Criminal parents could corrupt any child.
   罪犯父母会使任何孩子变坏。
3. The power corrupted him, corroding his mind and poisoning his judgment.
   权力使他丧失了理智,权力腐蚀了他,侵蚀了他的思想,毁掉了他的判断力。
4. One corrupt apple corrupts many sound ones.
   一个腐烂的苹果可以使许多好苹果变坏。
5. Careless scholars corrupted the original manuscript.
   粗心的学者毁坏了原稿。
6. Pornographic literature and art corrupt the minds of young people.
   色情文艺腐蚀年轻人的心灵。
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7. You are corrupted at heart.
   你有邪恶的本性。
8. That policeman can not be corrupted.
   那个警察不会被收买。
9. He could have been a great man, but he was corrupted by power.
   他本来可以成为一位伟人,但是权力却使他腐化了。
10. He was corrupted by the bad influence of two friends.
    他由于受两个朋友的坏影响而堕落了。

经典引文

• Charles II came back..with tastes as corrupt as his morals.

  出自： H. Reed

• Letting a rascal..corrupt the minds of children.

  出自： C. Mackenzie

• The hidden envy that can corrupt old age.

  出自： B. Plain

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• corrupt apple 烂苹果
• corrupt life 堕落的生活
• corrupt policeman 腐败的警察

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• corrupt darkly 暗地行贿
• corrupt morally 道德败坏
• corrupt openly 公开地向…行贿
• corrupt politically 政治腐败
• corrupt shamelessly 无耻行贿

～+介词

• corrupt at heart 思想堕落
• corrupt sb with sth 用…向…行贿
• corrupt a policeman with money 用金钱向警察行贿

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. corrupt的基本意思是“(使)败坏”,指在瓦解、污染或破坏之下丧失了正确、健全、纯洁的东西,从而导致道德崩溃。corrupt有时可用于具体事物,意为“毁坏”。
2. corrupt可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,其宾语可以是人,表示“贿赂、腐蚀某人”; 也可以是物,表示“玷污名声或名誉”。corrupt用作不及物动词时,后常用副词修饰。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪中期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的corruptus，意为破坏，使腐败。

近反义词

【近义词】

• dishonest
• untrustworthy

【反义词】

• honest
• pure
• upright