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deprave + noun/pronoun
及物动词，后接宾语。
Gambling depraves many young people.
赌博使许多年轻人堕落。
使堕落；使腐化
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
使堕落；使腐化
to make morally bad; to corrupt
Gambling depraves many young people.
赌博使许多年轻人堕落。
说坏话；贬低；诽谤；辱骂。
To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
使变坏或更糟；败坏；腐蚀。
To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
deprave
Base
原形
depraves
3rd person
第三人称单数
depraving
-ing
现在分词
depraved
Past
过去式
depraved
Past participle
过去分词
Greed depraves a person.
贪婪使人堕落。
The corrupt official depraved the entire community.
那个腐败官员使整个社区堕落。
Prolonged exposure to violence has depraved his morals.
长期接触暴力使他的道德堕落了。
规则动词
Violent video games are often blamed for depraving young minds.
暴力电子游戏常被指责使年轻人堕落。
He was depraved by his wealthy, irresponsible friends.
他被那些富有且不负责任的朋友带坏了。
Absolute power, it is said, depraves absolutely.
据说绝对权力导致绝对腐败。
及物动词，后接宾语。
Gambling depraves many young people.
赌博使许多年轻人堕落。
被动语态，表示受外界影响而堕落。
He was depraved by bad company.
他被狐朋狗友带坏了。
Not this
The scandal depraved him of his reputation.
Use this
The scandal deprived him of his reputation.
deprave意为使堕落，不表示剥夺；表示剥夺应用deprive，其搭配为deprive someone of something。
Not this
He is a deprave criminal.
Use this
He is a depraved criminal.
deprave是动词，作形容词应使用其过去分词形式depraved。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
使堕落并败坏；使人道德败坏
The novel was banned for tending to deprave and corrupt its readers.
这部小说因容易使读者堕落和道德败坏而被禁止。
毒害心灵；腐蚀思想
Constant exposure to cruelty can deprave the mind.
长期接触残忍之事会毒害心灵。
败坏公共道德
The government accused the film of trying to deprave public morals.
政府指责该影片企图败坏公共道德。
使年轻人堕落；毒害年轻人
These books were once considered likely to deprave the young.
这些书曾被认为可能使年轻人堕落。
使堕落和腐化
This phrase is the key test of obscenity in the UK Obscene Publications Act 1959, famously used in censorship debates.
这一表述是英国1959年《淫秽出版物法》中判定淫秽内容的关键标准，在审查讨论中经常被引用。
Use deprave naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记忆联想：'de'像'低'，'prave'像'prey猎物'——被拖向低处成猎物，即使堕落/败坏。
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、legal texts、moral or religious discussion deprave 通常用于较正式的书面语、法律条文和道德论述，表示‘使堕落、腐化’；在日常口语中很少出现。学习者可优先记住这一正式用法。
This verb is transitive, requiring a direct object.
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