vitiate
vitiate 英 [ˈvɪʃieɪt] 美 [ˈvɪʃiˌet]
vt. 损害，弄坏；使无效；污染
进行时:vitiating 过去式:vitiated 过去分词:vitiated 第三人称单数:vitiates 名词复数:vitiates
- As some sneaky five-year-olds know, crossing one’s fingers while making a promise is an effective way to vitiate, or destroy the validity of, an agreement.
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- vt. 损害，弄坏；使无效；污染
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1. But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
但这不会威胁到他的奖学金。
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2. And you will vitiate the experiment if you make the slightest attempt to abort it into some fancy figure of your own: for example, your notion of a good man or a womanly woman.
你只要有哪怕一丁点儿企图把这个人变成你自身某一花哨的侧面，试验就会失败：例如你把自己对于好男人和淑女的观念强加于它。
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3. increase in aspirations is to vitiate the expected growth in happiness
应提高了，期望值的提高会抵消收入提高所带来的预期有所增加的幸福感。
- vitiate (v.) 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
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