Перевод слова

Перевод: debase

[глагол]
понижать качество; понижать ценность; портить; унижать достоинство; принижать; унижаться

Тезаурус:

1. The sovereign's power to debase the currency has passed to the commercial banks and so has the seigniorage which once accrued to the state.
2. Her frequent denunciations of high levels of taxation and public expenditure, of big government, and of the diminution of individual freedom and choice are passionate and deeply felt; they are expressed in attacks on the baneful, almost "immoral", effects of inflation and of governments which debase the currency, or borrow rather than "balance" their income and expenditure.
3. But on reflection I understood that this was no coincidence: Jean-Claude needed a Jew with whom to debase himself in order to have the licence to abuse him in return.
4. Do not skimp and debase using margarine in place of butter, skimmed milk instead of cream.
5. Acts which contravened moral law were "calculated to degrade and debase the manhood and womanhood of this country", entangling them "in the meshes of its wide and sweeping net".
6. From Iago, too, Othello has caught the habit of repeating a word, dwelling on it to debase it or bring out a sinister double meaning (compare Iago on "virtue" and "blest": I.iii.318ff.; II.i.245ff.).
7. The metaphor does not in itself debase the theatre, and although Shakespeare is using plays and actors to present insincerity or hypocrisy that does not make him or them corrupt: the medium is not the same as the message.
8. Henry was forced to use the surplus on his ordinary revenue, to sell monastic lands, debase the coinage, and borrow on the Antwerp exchange.
9. Such a state of affairs would, of course, protect serious public discussion of matters of social importance but it would also debase much of the discussion of public affairs.
10. A man should be so proud of virility that he should not squander or debase it.
11. Corruption, public relations and lobbying work debase Congress and undermine its right to be seen as a legitimate institution representing the American people.
12. Whether or not depictions of violence could form an essential part of such a discourse was not considered, since the Court's focus was on sex, the "crass commercial exploitation" of which can debase and distort a "key relationship of human existence, central to family life, community welfare, and the development of human personality".
13. Later, in a chapter entitled "The Application of Paint" it says that recent books on decoration have "done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties".