corruption
corruption 英 [kəˈrʌpʃn] 美 [kəˈrʌpʃən]
n. 贪污，腐败；堕落
名词复数:corruptions
- Corruption is dishonest action that destroys people's trust. News of corruption at your bank might make you close your account and invest your money somewhere else.
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- n. 贪污，腐败；堕落
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1. The official corruption discontented the people.
官员腐败令人民不满。
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2. to fight police corruption.
打击警察腐败
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3. He claimed that sex and violence on TV led to the corruption of young people.
他断言电视中所宣扬的色情与暴力诱使青少年堕落。
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4. The word ‘holiday’ is a corruption of ‘holy day’.
单词 holiday 是 holy day 的变体。
- corruption (n.) mid-14c., corrupcioun, of material things, especially dead bodies, "act of becoming putrid, dissolution, decay;" also of the soul, morals, etc., "spiritual contamination, depravity, wickedness," from Latin corruptionem (nominative corruptio) "a corruption, spoiling, seducing; a corrupt condition," noun of action from past-participle stem of corrumpere "to destroy; spoil," figuratively "corrupt, seduce, bribe" (see corrupt (adj.)).
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