单词:corruption
[计] 论误
n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
n. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
n. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
考试类型:[托福]
corruption的用法和样例:
例句
- Accusations of corruption have been made against him.对他贪污的控告已经提出。
- Corruption and bribery are mean.贪污行贿是可鄙的。
- An odor of corruption hangs about him.他浑身散发着腐化堕落的气味。
- Corruption and crime go hand in hand.腐败与犯罪携手并行。
- The newspapers blasted the political corruption.报纸对政治腐败加以强烈谴责。
词汇搭配
- graft and corruption贪污腐化
- data corruption数据败坏
- corruption of blood血统玷污
经典引文
Seminaries of young ladies..are in danger of great corruption.
出自:V. Knox
- 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
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