corruption

英 [kə'rʌpʃn] 美 [kə'rʌpʃn]

• n. 贪污；堕落；腐败

英英释义

Noun:

1. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

2. in a state of progressive putrefaction

3. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

4. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;

   "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"
   "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"
   "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"
   "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
   

5. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity;

   "corruption of a minor"
   "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
   

6. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony);

   "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Accusations of corruption have been made against him.
   对他贪污的控告已经提出。
2. Corruption and bribery are mean.
   贪污行贿是可鄙的。
3. An odor of corruption hangs about him.
   他浑身散发着腐化堕落的气味。
4. Corruption and crime go hand in hand.
   腐败与犯罪携手并行。
5. The newspapers blasted the political corruption.
   报纸对政治腐败加以强烈谴责。

经典引文

• Seminaries of young ladies..are in danger of great corruption.

  出自： V. Knox

词汇搭配

• graft and corruption 贪污腐化
• data corruption 数据败坏
• corruption of blood 血统玷污

近反义词

【近义词】

• dishonesty 不诚实
• depravity 堕落
• degeneracy 退步
• exploitation 开发
• sleaze 低劣
• bribery 受贿
• fraud 欺骗
• venality 唯利是图
• perversion 误用
• immorality 不道德
• harm 危害
• debasement (品质、价值等）降低...
• vice 缺点
• putridness 腐烂
• putrescence 腐败
• subversion 颠覆
• depravation 恶化
• putrefaction 腐败
• corruptness 堕落
• rottenness 腐烂