Degraded

(imp. & p. p.) of Degrade

(a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.

(a.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

(a.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.

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• Gradually certain stimuli are selected because of their relevancy, and others are degraded. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We shall not then be degraded from our true characters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Excuse my being a little out of temper; I'm degraded in my own estimation--I have let Rosanna Spearman puzzle me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• What a degraded and vile sight it is! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They are a degraded race. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The silver coin still continues in the same worn and degraded state as before the reformation of the cold coin. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In this degraded position! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If I say what you tell me to say to him--I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• This Pope, John XII, was finally degraded by the new German Emperor Otto, who came over the Alps and down into Italy to be crowned in 962. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yes, he said, I see that there are--a few; but the people, speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded and enslaved. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The human impulses which create these social conditions, the human needs to which they are a sad and degraded answer--this human center of the problem the commission passes by with a platitude. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He had not spoken since Issus had degraded him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded, if such a wretch as I felt pride. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But now vice has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Her degraded charge had come back, and was standing behind her with the bonnet and shawl. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He knew he was perverse, so spiritual on the one hand, and in some strange way, degraded, on the other. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the fact of the world esteeming her father degraded, in its rough wholesale judgment, would have oppressed and irritated Mr. Lennox. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• What greater wretchedness can there be than to live degraded in your own estimation? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We were surely sufficiently degraded. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How can men, calling themselves men, consent to be so degraded and happy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The people I have longest and most esteemed are degraded by her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I felt--yes, idiot that I am--I felt degraded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened, civilized people. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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