Never in the history of political turpitude had any brigand of modern civilization offered a worse example.

在政治堕落的历史上， 现代文明的强盗从未提供过更糟糕的例子。

He was still angry, with a sort of numb despair, at the condition of Palestinians, the moral turpitude of the Palestinian Authority and Israel's boot on the neck, controlling everything.

他对巴勒斯坦人的处境，巴勒斯坦权力机构的道德败坏，以及以色列强行控制着一切感到很愤怒，带着一种麻木的绝望。

In his splenetic new book, Mr Milbank dates the " crack-up" of the Republican Party to various " destructionists" and—to appropriate the author's trademark style—their depravity, deplorability, mendacity, moral turpitude, rapacity and sycophancy.

在他那本脾气暴躁的新书中，米尔班克先生将共和党的“崩溃”归咎于各种“破坏主义者”，以及——借用作者标志性的风格——他们的堕落、可悲、虚伪、道德败坏、贪婪和阿谀奉承。

When we hear of some daring crime — it comes full upon us in the deepest shade of turpitude, and raises indignation; but the eye that gradually saw the darkness thicken, must observe it with more compassionate forbearance.

当我们听到一些大胆的罪行时——它会在最邪恶的阴影下完全笼罩我们，并激起愤慨；但那渐渐看到黑暗变浓的眼睛，必须以更慈悲的忍耐来观察它。

I saw now what I hadn't seen before: that they were eyes which had grown hideous gradually, which had built up their baseness coral-wise, bit by bit, out of a series of small turpitudes slowly accumulated through the industrious years.

我现在看到了我以前没有看到的东西：它们是逐渐变得丑陋的眼睛，从辛勤工作的岁月中慢慢积累的一系列小丑陋中一点一点地形成珊瑚般的卑鄙。