Let's not debase ourselves with word games, son.

我们别纠结这个文字游戏了 儿子。

He was playing to debase of the Republican party.

他正在削减共和党的价值。

But apparently he doesn't. He is planning to debase the Republican party.

然而，很显然他没有。他正在削减共和党的价值。

They said I had debased the entire family and that they couldn't love me anymore until I changed.

他们说我令整个家族蒙羞，我改变之前他们不会再爱我。

I cannot understand how human beings can so debase themselves.

我不明白人类怎么会如此贬低自己。

'It's a debasing life, a journalist's, ' he said.

“这是一种贬低的生活， 记者的生活， ” 他说。

It acts neither in an ennobling nor a debasing way, but in an irritating way.

它既不以高尚的方式也不以贬低的方式行事， 而是以令人恼火的方式行事。

He now for the first time perceived how her soul had been debased, and she finally understood it.

他现在第一次察觉到她的灵魂是如何堕落的， 她也终于明白了。

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

每一个想要的存在更新都会因为成为半合金而被贬低。

But, respect for parents is, generally speaking, a much more debasing principle; it is only a selfish respect for property.

但是，一般来说，尊重父母是一种更加贬低的原则； 这只是对财产的自私尊重。

This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value.

因此，当硬币因剪裁和磨损而严重贬值时，这个名义金额必然高于接近其标准价值时的金额。

Must they always be debased by being made to consider the sex of their companions? Must they be taught always to be pleasing?

他们必须总是因为被迫考虑同伴的性别而被贬低吗？必须教导他们总是讨人喜欢吗？

Other new sources of revenue included debasing the coinage, which caused inflation so bad that the government would not accept its own Roman money in payment of Roman taxes.

其它的政府收入来源包括将货币贬值，造成严重的通货膨胀，以至于政府都不愿意接受以罗马货币缴纳的税款。

But struggling with these better feelings was pride, —the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.

但是与这些更好的感觉作斗争的是骄傲——最低级和最堕落的生物的恶习，不亚于高尚和自信的生物。

To have any hope of overcoming these challenges, we have to start by reclaiming our civic dialogue from those who are debasing and degrading it — and preventing us from getting things done.

为了争取克服这些挑战，我们必须让那些阻止我们实现目标和贬低文明对话的人无法得逞。

When, therefore, I call women slaves, I mean in a political and civil sense; for, indirectly they obtain too much power, and are debased by their exertions to obtain illicit sway.

因此，当我称女性为奴隶时，我指的是政治和文明意义上的奴隶；因为他们间接地获得了太多的权力，并且由于他们努力获得非法的影响而贬低了他们。

But from no point of view that I have found are such debased fellow beings a whit more natural than the glaring tailored tourists we saw that frightened the birds and squirrels.

但是，从我发现的任何角度来看，与我们看到的惊吓鸟类和松鼠的耀眼定制游客相比，我发现这些堕落的同胞更自然。

True, but they then become tyrants; for it is not rational freedom, but a lawless kind of power, resembling the authority exercised by the favourites of absolute monarchs, which they obtain by debasing means.

是的，但他们后来变成了暴君； 因为这不是理性的自由， 而是一种无法无天的权力， 类似于专制君主的宠儿所行使的权力， 是他们通过贬低手段获得的。

The glorious light of this tender and refined passion seemed to have become debased to burlesque hues by pure accident, and his aesthetic no less than his ethic taste was offended by such an anti-climax.

这种温柔而优雅的激情所发出的光辉似乎完全出于偶然而沦为滑稽的色彩，他的审美和他的道德品味都被这种反高潮所冒犯。

I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken.

我不敢再重复这种恶意的暗示，它降低了人类的理解力，低于普通猎犬的智慧，普通猎犬有足够的判断力来区分和跟随狗群中最能干的狗的叫声，而不会犯错。