vitiate
英 ['vɪʃɪeɪt]
美['vɪʃɪet]
- vt. 损害，弄坏；使无效；污染
词态变化
第三人称单数: vitiates;过去式: vitiated;过去分词: vitiated;现在分词: vitiating;
中文词源
vitiate 伤害，削弱，损坏
来自拉丁语vitium,错误，缺陷，污点，词源同vice,vicious。即中伤，找茬，伤害等。
英英释意
- 1. 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"
- 2. make imperfect;
- "nothing marred her beauty"
- 3. take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
- "invalidateas a contract"
英文词源
- 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.
实用场景例句
- Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between 'easterners' and 'westerners'...
- 由于“东方人”和“西方人”之间存在巨大的分歧，战争期间的战略方针没有得到切实的执行。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
- 但这不会威胁到他的奖学金。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- No such Variation shall vitiate or invalidate this Contract.
- 任何该等变更都不会影响本合同或造成本合同失效.
期刊摘选
- This may vitiate a literal translation.
- 这就会损害直译的价值。
辞典例句
- But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
- 但这不会威胁到他的奖学金。
柯林斯例句