Corrupt

(verb.) alter from the original.

(verb.) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; 'debauch the young people with wine and women'; 'Socrates was accused of corrupting young men'; 'Do school counselors subvert young children?'; 'corrupt the morals'.

(adj.) lacking in integrity; 'humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation'; 'a corrupt and incompetent city government' .

(adj.) touched by rot or decay; 'tainted bacon'; '`corrupt' is archaic' .

(adj.) containing errors or alterations; 'a corrupt text'; 'spoke a corrupted version of the language' .

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• Art cannot claim to be on a level with philosophy or religion, and may often corrupt them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She said not, but who could tell what was truth which came from those lips, or if that corrupt heart was in this case pure? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Master Allan Stewart, friend to Captain James Stewart of Cardonall, by means of the Queen's corrupted court, obtained the Abbey of Crossraguel. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her residence in Milton has quite corrupted her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And we do not deny that they are very liable to be corrupted; but yet surely in the course of ages there might be one exception--and one is enough. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• When the higher natures are corrupted by politics, the lower take possession of the vacant place of philosophy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We are positively corrupting people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The soul too has her own corrupting principles, which are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and the like. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Would you agree with me in thinking that the corrupting and destroying element is the evil, and the saving and improving element the good? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Well, I said, and is there no evil which corrupts the soul? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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