decadent
decadent 英 [ˈdekədənt] 美 [ˈdɛkədənt, dɪˈkednt]
adj. 颓废的；衰微的 n. 颓废者
名词复数:decadents
- If your friend vacations in lavish hotels, wears thousand-dollar shoes, and refuses to eat cheese that costs less than $20 an ounce, you might say her lifestyle is decadent.
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- adj. 颓废的；衰微的
- n. 颓废者
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1. He began and ended his career as a decadent, I suppose a reader of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.
他以颓废者的形象开始和结束其事业，我想作为佩特和王尔德的读者。
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2. And Andrew Sullivan sounded like he wanted to round up "decadent" Gore voters on both coasts for the crime of having voted for the guy who actually got the most votes.
安德鲁沙利文听起来像他想围捕在两个海岸的“颓废的”戈尔支持者，由于已经投票给他这个事实已经拥有最多票数的家伙的罪行。
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3. The ancient civilization became a byword for isolation and stagnation. China's decadent emperors were immured behind the Great Wall and inside the Forbidden City.
（相反），这样一个文明古国成了孤立封锁和停滞不前的代名词：看那颓废的君主，苟且蜷缩于长城和紫禁城的高墙之内；
- decadent (adj.) "in a state of decline or decay (from a former condition of excellence)," 1837, from French décadent, back-formation from décadence (see decadence). In reference to literary (later, other artistic) schools that believed, or affected to believe, they lived in an age of artistic decadence, 1885 in French, 1888 in English. Usually in a bad sense:
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