Definition of corrupt in English:

corrupt

adjective kəˈrʌptkəˈrəpt

1Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
腐败的；堕落的
unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials
有腐败官员撑腰的肆无忌惮的伐木公司。
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the amount paid through companies was a little more, the stories of corrupt officials extracting money from otherwise honest taxpayers put many people off registering.
- Attempts to eradicate migration of young people for work will increase their reliance on corrupt officials and use of clandestine routes
- Unless one of the parties gives evidence, it is a Herculean task to prove that the receipt of money was for a corrupt purpose.
- I have cautioned him in the past that he could face serious, personal harm if he continued with his mission to expose illicit crime networks and corrupt official behaviour.
- They are seen (because they are) as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain.
- I would prefer instead to create my own small business with the money that would otherwise go into the pockets of corrupt officials.
- It has to do with the corrupt misuse of big money to subvert democracy.
- All we have noticed was that local syndicates were using corrupt government officials to defraud the state.
- ‘There's an assumption that our money is dirty and corrupt,’ he said.
- Dirty money flowing from abroad is criminal, corrupt, or commercially tax-evading at its source.
- Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
- The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed.
- Some borrowed money was pocketed by corrupt officials.
- The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials.
- I say we should ban the corrupt corporate money.
- One is forced to believe in rumours of corrupt officials selling quality produce to private shops for personal gain.
- This racketeering ring is aided and abetted by some corrupt police and licensing officials buttressed by some crooked bank employees.
- It is feared that it would only serve as another slush fund for corrupt government officials and politicians.
- I call on people to report any corrupt and illegal conduct concerning an election.
- While these benefited, half the money was stolen by corrupt officials.
Synonyms
dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, untrustworthy, underhand, deceitful, double-dealing, disreputable, discreditable, shameful, scandalous
corruptible, bribable, buyable, venal, fraudulent, swindling, grafting, criminal, lawless, felonious, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous
Law malfeasant
informal crooked, shady, tricky, dirty, low-down, rascally, scoundrelly
British informal bent, dodgy
archaic hollow-hearted
1. 1.1 Evil or morally depraved.
  邪恶的；不道德的
  the old corrupt order
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's not always a dispute between right and wrong or angels and devils; it's sometimes between two evils, within the corrupt core itself.
  By implication, authorities are immoral and culture is correspondingly morally corrupt.
  It is a morally corrupt institution run by a criminal bureaucracy.
  The group members confront the film industry types about their rotten films and corrupt lives.
  They began as innocent children and were gradually rendered wicked and evil and absolutely corrupt by the treatment they received at the hands of those they most trusted!
  It has led us to ruin; it is morally corrupt and its credibility is shot to pieces.
  Audiences had never before seen anything so noisy, so gritty, so morally corrupt - and they attended in droves.
  Just how did a single man sweep a nation with a morally corrupt and evil regime.
  Along with privilege and education, leisure brings choices, including those deemed by moralists to be evil or corrupt.
  Exposure to extreme violence turns them into machines driven by the will to survive in a corrupt and morally decadent world.
  I hope so, as it is clearly morally corrupt to give company heads millions of pounds when they have overseen a period of business resulting in job losses and cutbacks.
  Well, he an astonishing man - an astonishingly corrupt and evil man.
  There's something morally corrupt about that.
  It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
  With its rhetorical poses and elaborate decoration, it was often criticised by later generations, who not only considered it bad, but also morally corrupt.
  It's a quality many journalists would resist, but it is a moral position as valid as any other, and is only a weakness when applied to the evil and corrupt.
  I, for the most part, think they are all evil, lying, corrupt individuals.
  He finds them incompatible; one is good, right, and pure, the other corrupt, evil, and hypocritical.
  It seems to me that we have pretty wisely recognized, over time, that in fact a person's ostensible theology tells us pretty little about how corrupt or evil he's going to be.
  Yet the main purpose of the book is to tackle perennial ethical conundrums: How do we handle prosperity without becoming morally corrupt?
  Synonyms
  sinful, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, profane, blasphemous, impious, impure
  immoral, depraved, degenerate, reprobate, vice-ridden, perverted, debauched, dissolute, dissipated, intemperate, decadent, profligate, wanton, abandoned, immodest, lustful, lascivious, lewd, lecherous, sordid
  bad, wicked, evil, base, low
  informal warped
2(of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations.
（文章或手稿）讹误充斥的；漏洞百出的
a progressively corrupt magnetic record is usable nonetheless
Example sentencesExamples
- Only corrupt manuscripts can produce so many departures.
- The text is corrupt and broken, and the original books, apparently eight in number, have a disturbed sequence.
- The doctrine is greatly harmed here by the corrupt text.
- The text is believed to be corrupt, the manuscript tradition poor, and the editor on a tea-break.
- This is most amusing and shows how captive the Revisers are to their corrupt text.
- Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos.
- The traditional explanation for this was that their texts are extremely corrupt as a result of their reconstruction from memory by a member, or members, of their cast.
- Although the Arabic text is slightly corrupt at both places where this person's name is mentioned, that is the only plausible way to read the name.
- Those who wrote the corrupt manuscripts had no trouble with the other commandments shown here.
- It has become a corrupt text, with countless additions, cuts and changes ossifying into tradition over the years.
3archaic (of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid.
〈古〉腐坏的；腐烂的
a corrupt and rotting corpse
一具腐烂的尸体。
Example sentencesExamples
- When the cell divides, the corrupt protein is contained in both daughter cells, where it seeds the process again.
- A vintner found selling corrupt wine was forced to drink it, then banned from the trade.
- The food and water are so corrupt that a Western traveler is almost guaranteed sickness.
- The first of the non-naturals was the consideration of air: good air encouraged and maintained good health, while corrupt air could throw the humours out of balance and cause illness.
- Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt.

verb kəˈrʌptkəˈrəpt

[with object]

1Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
腐败的；堕落的
there is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts
人们一直担心公司为了寻求合同而去贿赂政客。
Example sentencesExamples
- All three deal with the way money corrupts people, but more specifically, how every transaction in life is based on money and how the intersection of money and personal relationships destroys or, at very best, warps everyone's life.
- Congress itself saw that the money flow needed to be stemmed, for the money was corrupting the process.
- Money corrupts the process, of course, but voters have let that happen, let rich people and organizations have an influence on the process that ordinary folks can't match.
- Essentially it was a modern and very predictable parable about - yes you've guessed it - how the beautiful game has been corrupted by money.
- Far from money corrupting our appreciation of art, it often opens up important questions of quality and critical esteem.
- To avoid being corrupted by money in this manner, we simply remove it from the equation.
- Both are corrupted by corporate money almost beyond redemption.
- I may have an impoverished imagination, but the only explanation that seems to fit is the mundane power of money to corrupt one's beliefs.
- It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home.
- While I agree that both parties are almost hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and power, the hope for a viable third party here is still very slim.
- I can look to my brother to see how the lust for that money can corrupt an entire personality.
- He was a frugal man himself and he feared that the money would corrupt both his family and the strict religious principles of his regime.
- Macbeth, honest and humble, was corrupted by the powers of fortune.
- When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up.
- The author's focus on how money corrupts the political process is dead right, of course, but it's hardly original.
- Thomsby's concerns weren't based solely on his fear that power would corrupt most individuals, although that was a very real possibility.
- All governments and politicians are corrupted by power.
- And afterwards I became more like I was before I'd been corrupted by all that money and excess.
- The masses are too immersed in suspicions that money has corrupted sports beyond hope.
- As a celebrity, I became corrupted by sex and money.
Synonyms
bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off
informal grease someone's palm, give someone a backhander, give someone a sweetener, keep someone sweet, get at, fix, square
British informal nobble
1. 1.1 Cause to become morally depraved.
  邪恶的；不道德的
  he has corrupted the boy
  他把这男孩带坏了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here's hoping fame doesn't corrupt them, because these boys are bound to go very far indeed.
  This Ring, ‘the Ring to rule them all’, had the power to corrupt any person who possessed it.
  I was drawn astray by the promise of power, and it corrupted my poor mind.
  The moral consideration of Animal Farm is that power corrupts people.
  But they are increasing their power, slowly corrupting the very foundations of the world and even the hearts of men.
  It can become corrupted by power and privilege.
  Outside forces like the press and media could corrupt the young boy, and John wished his son to have the most normal of childhoods, in light of the circumstances.
  There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden.
  Ostensibly, we are protecting minors from being morally corrupted by adults?
  Having power in the government corrupted them.
  We cannot be trusted with domination, becoming too easily corrupted by its power and too often succumbing to repression in defending it.
  It is interesting how world power has corrupted this country.
  This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws.
  Her acts of horror and blasphemy indicate she became corrupted by the evil power.
  Further, he is a wrongdoer in corrupting the young.
  Media companies are ruining democracy and corrupting our public life.
  It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation.
  Inevitably power will corrupt its possessor - but some may resist its corrupting effect for longer than others.
  On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers.
  This is bad, for they are already being corrupted by their own power and I fear I'm now powerless to resist - that's why I'm cowering away in this place.
  Synonyms
  pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence
  archaic demoralize
2Change or debase by making errors or unintentional alterations.
使有讹误；使出错
a backup copy will be needed if the original copy becomes corrupted
Epicurus's teachings have since been much corrupted
伊壁鸠鲁的学说后来被掺杂了许多讹误。
Example sentencesExamples
- The process of market research has been corrupted by paid research.
- As we speak, Esperanto is being corrupted by upstart languages.
- Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product.
- We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening.
- But then Redmond apparently got wind of the survey, and the innocent poll was swiftly corrupted.
- A message entirely without redundancy may contain the maximum amount of information, but cannot be corrected if it is corrupted in some way, because there is no ‘spare’ material to check with.
Synonyms
alter, falsify, manipulate, tamper with, interfere with, tinker with, doctor, distort
adulterate, bastardize, dilute, contaminate, taint
informal fiddle with, cook
rare vitiate
3archaic Infect; contaminate.
〈古〉腐蚀；污染
the corrupting smell of death
死尸的腐烂气味。
Synonyms
bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off
pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence

Derivatives

corrupter

noun kəˈrʌptəkəˈrəptər

Corruption at all levels in the public and private sector is so widespread and systematic, partly because some laws tend to protect corrupters through its weakness.
Example sentencesExamples
- Where's the accountability for these corrupters?
- After that, he may probe other, bigger cases which siphoned off trillions in state funds, with most of the money since having been stashed abroad by the corrupters.
- The protesters also urged the government to arrest big-time corrupters, whom they blamed for partly contributing to the fuel price hikes.
- Prosecuting big-time corrupters has proven to be a formidable task even after four years under the reform movement.

corruptibility

noun kəˌrʌptəˈbɪlətikəˌrəptəˈbɪlədi

mass noun

1The quality of being able to be persuaded to act dishonestly or immorally for personal gain.
a cynical view of the corruptibility of human nature
Example sentencesExamples
- times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility
- ‘The people’ do not rule; their elected representatives actually do so, and with widely varying degrees of potency, efficiency, honesty or corruptibility.
- It's hard to make a good film noir if you're uncomfortable with your audience's corruptibility.
- This sorrowful issue gave rise to some sternness it must be said, as his Lordship's minor intellect and obvious corruptibility had brought shame on the entire legal profession.
- the corruptibility of control mechanisms
- writers warn us about the corruptibility of language in the wrong hands
2Ability to be changed or debased through errors or unintentional alterations.
使有讹误；使出错

corruptible

adjective kəˈrʌptəb(ə)lkəˈrəptəb(ə)l

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
Example sentencesExamples
- They believed he was independent and vigorous - as well as no longer corruptible because he had already accumulated enormous wealth.
- For Plato himself, a study of mathematics and geometry leads the mind away from the corruptible and perishable to the contemplation of true Being and eternal order.
- What's worse, many firms just don't pay, especially where poor bankruptcy laws and corruptible courts prevent the seizure of debtors' assets.
- And perhaps even forgotten, for what use is a corruptible and degradable original when digital copies can be searched and cloned at the click of a mouse?

corruptive

adjective kəˈrʌptɪvkəˈrəptɪv

By contrast, there is much evidence that the post-1913 system has been deeply corruptive.
Example sentencesExamples
- Power is not inherently virtuous (and power is not inherently corruptive, either).
- Protecting the integrity of racing from corruptive forces is his priority - and the investigation into claims of skulduggery following the explosion in betting exchanges are top of his ‘to do’ list.
- Rather an action, or set of actions, is corruptive of an institution in so far as the action, or actions, have a negative moral effect on the institution.
- Nothing is gained, however, by calling melodrama, or melodramatic violence, morally corruptive.

corruptly

adverb

They have taken with them at least US $5 billion in corruptly obtained earnings.
Example sentencesExamples
- If that particular licence or approval or authority has been obtained on the basis of a bribe, i.e. obtained corruptly, that can have ramifications for the organisation when it comes to make future investments.
- If a university had been caught taking money from a private school in exchange for lowering the entrance criteria for its pupils, the government would have accused it, quite rightly, of behaving corruptly and unfairly.
- He also stressed that the money - which represents a fraction of his estimated $1.4 billion fortune - had been earned legitimately through business, not corruptly in office.
- Every elector who corruptly accepts or takes any such food, drink, entertainment, or provision also commits the offence of treating.

corruptness

noun kəˈrʌptnəskəˈrəptnəs

Basically, according to him, the corruptness is inside a man already.
Example sentencesExamples
- This appears to be the moment to finally establish in everyone's mind the deep fraudulence and corruptness of his various enterprises.
- Had he changed his mind about the administration's alleged corruptness?
- Their behaviour - and apparently the travel fraud is spread across different political parties - speaks of moral corruptness.
- For all the dangers and encounters he has been involved in, this man is still naive of the corruptness of other individuals.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere 'mar, bribe, destroy', from cor- 'altogether' + rumpere 'to break'.

Corrupt comes from Latin corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ and rumpere ‘to break’. Also from rumpere are disrupt (Late Middle English) ‘break apart’; eruption (Late Middle English) a breaking out; interrupt (Late Middle English) ‘to break between’. See words at rut

Rhymes

abrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, irrupt

Definition of corrupt in US English:

corrupt

adjectivekəˈrəptkəˈrəpt

1Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
腐败的；堕落的
unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials
有腐败官员撑腰的肆无忌惮的伐木公司。
Example sentencesExamples
- It has to do with the corrupt misuse of big money to subvert democracy.
- I say we should ban the corrupt corporate money.
- One is forced to believe in rumours of corrupt officials selling quality produce to private shops for personal gain.
- It is feared that it would only serve as another slush fund for corrupt government officials and politicians.
- While these benefited, half the money was stolen by corrupt officials.
- I call on people to report any corrupt and illegal conduct concerning an election.
- All we have noticed was that local syndicates were using corrupt government officials to defraud the state.
- Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
- They are seen (because they are) as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain.
- Although the amount paid through companies was a little more, the stories of corrupt officials extracting money from otherwise honest taxpayers put many people off registering.
- The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials.
- This racketeering ring is aided and abetted by some corrupt police and licensing officials buttressed by some crooked bank employees.
- ‘There's an assumption that our money is dirty and corrupt,’ he said.
- The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed.
- Dirty money flowing from abroad is criminal, corrupt, or commercially tax-evading at its source.
- Attempts to eradicate migration of young people for work will increase their reliance on corrupt officials and use of clandestine routes
- I would prefer instead to create my own small business with the money that would otherwise go into the pockets of corrupt officials.
- Unless one of the parties gives evidence, it is a Herculean task to prove that the receipt of money was for a corrupt purpose.
- Some borrowed money was pocketed by corrupt officials.
- I have cautioned him in the past that he could face serious, personal harm if he continued with his mission to expose illicit crime networks and corrupt official behaviour.
Synonyms
dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, untrustworthy, underhand, deceitful, double-dealing, disreputable, discreditable, shameful, scandalous
1. 1.1 Evil or morally depraved.
  邪恶的；不道德的
  the play can do no harm since its audience is already corrupt
  这个戏不会带来什么坏处，因为它的观众已经堕落了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He finds them incompatible; one is good, right, and pure, the other corrupt, evil, and hypocritical.
  Just how did a single man sweep a nation with a morally corrupt and evil regime.
  By implication, authorities are immoral and culture is correspondingly morally corrupt.
  They began as innocent children and were gradually rendered wicked and evil and absolutely corrupt by the treatment they received at the hands of those they most trusted!
  There's something morally corrupt about that.
  It is a morally corrupt institution run by a criminal bureaucracy.
  I, for the most part, think they are all evil, lying, corrupt individuals.
  Exposure to extreme violence turns them into machines driven by the will to survive in a corrupt and morally decadent world.
  Audiences had never before seen anything so noisy, so gritty, so morally corrupt - and they attended in droves.
  Along with privilege and education, leisure brings choices, including those deemed by moralists to be evil or corrupt.
  Well, he an astonishing man - an astonishingly corrupt and evil man.
  It's not always a dispute between right and wrong or angels and devils; it's sometimes between two evils, within the corrupt core itself.
  It's a quality many journalists would resist, but it is a moral position as valid as any other, and is only a weakness when applied to the evil and corrupt.
  With its rhetorical poses and elaborate decoration, it was often criticised by later generations, who not only considered it bad, but also morally corrupt.
  I hope so, as it is clearly morally corrupt to give company heads millions of pounds when they have overseen a period of business resulting in job losses and cutbacks.
  Yet the main purpose of the book is to tackle perennial ethical conundrums: How do we handle prosperity without becoming morally corrupt?
  It has led us to ruin; it is morally corrupt and its credibility is shot to pieces.
  It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
  It seems to me that we have pretty wisely recognized, over time, that in fact a person's ostensible theology tells us pretty little about how corrupt or evil he's going to be.
  The group members confront the film industry types about their rotten films and corrupt lives.
  Synonyms
  sinful, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, profane, blasphemous, impious, impure
2(of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations.
（文章或手稿）讹误充斥的；漏洞百出的
Example sentencesExamples
- This is most amusing and shows how captive the Revisers are to their corrupt text.
- Those who wrote the corrupt manuscripts had no trouble with the other commandments shown here.
- The traditional explanation for this was that their texts are extremely corrupt as a result of their reconstruction from memory by a member, or members, of their cast.
- Only corrupt manuscripts can produce so many departures.
- The text is believed to be corrupt, the manuscript tradition poor, and the editor on a tea-break.
- The doctrine is greatly harmed here by the corrupt text.
- The text is corrupt and broken, and the original books, apparently eight in number, have a disturbed sequence.
- Although the Arabic text is slightly corrupt at both places where this person's name is mentioned, that is the only plausible way to read the name.
- Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos.
- It has become a corrupt text, with countless additions, cuts and changes ossifying into tradition over the years.
3archaic (of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid.
〈古〉腐坏的；腐烂的
a corrupt and rotting corpse
一具腐烂的尸体。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first of the non-naturals was the consideration of air: good air encouraged and maintained good health, while corrupt air could throw the humours out of balance and cause illness.
- When the cell divides, the corrupt protein is contained in both daughter cells, where it seeds the process again.
- Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt.
- The food and water are so corrupt that a Western traveler is almost guaranteed sickness.
- A vintner found selling corrupt wine was forced to drink it, then banned from the trade.

verbkəˈrəptkəˈrəpt

[with object]

1Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
腐败的；堕落的
there is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts
人们一直担心公司为了寻求合同而去贿赂政客。
Example sentencesExamples
- Money corrupts the process, of course, but voters have let that happen, let rich people and organizations have an influence on the process that ordinary folks can't match.
- Thomsby's concerns weren't based solely on his fear that power would corrupt most individuals, although that was a very real possibility.
- Macbeth, honest and humble, was corrupted by the powers of fortune.
- Essentially it was a modern and very predictable parable about - yes you've guessed it - how the beautiful game has been corrupted by money.
- It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home.
- He was a frugal man himself and he feared that the money would corrupt both his family and the strict religious principles of his regime.
- The author's focus on how money corrupts the political process is dead right, of course, but it's hardly original.
- When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up.
- Far from money corrupting our appreciation of art, it often opens up important questions of quality and critical esteem.
- As a celebrity, I became corrupted by sex and money.
- Congress itself saw that the money flow needed to be stemmed, for the money was corrupting the process.
- All governments and politicians are corrupted by power.
- Both are corrupted by corporate money almost beyond redemption.
- The masses are too immersed in suspicions that money has corrupted sports beyond hope.
- To avoid being corrupted by money in this manner, we simply remove it from the equation.
- I may have an impoverished imagination, but the only explanation that seems to fit is the mundane power of money to corrupt one's beliefs.
- I can look to my brother to see how the lust for that money can corrupt an entire personality.
- While I agree that both parties are almost hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and power, the hope for a viable third party here is still very slim.
- And afterwards I became more like I was before I'd been corrupted by all that money and excess.
- All three deal with the way money corrupts people, but more specifically, how every transaction in life is based on money and how the intersection of money and personal relationships destroys or, at very best, warps everyone's life.
Synonyms
bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off
1. 1.1 Cause to become morally depraved.
  邪恶的；不道德的
  he has corrupted the boy
  他把这男孩带坏了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ostensibly, we are protecting minors from being morally corrupted by adults?
  It is interesting how world power has corrupted this country.
  We cannot be trusted with domination, becoming too easily corrupted by its power and too often succumbing to repression in defending it.
  On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers.
  There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden.
  Media companies are ruining democracy and corrupting our public life.
  This is bad, for they are already being corrupted by their own power and I fear I'm now powerless to resist - that's why I'm cowering away in this place.
  This Ring, ‘the Ring to rule them all’, had the power to corrupt any person who possessed it.
  I was drawn astray by the promise of power, and it corrupted my poor mind.
  The moral consideration of Animal Farm is that power corrupts people.
  It can become corrupted by power and privilege.
  Her acts of horror and blasphemy indicate she became corrupted by the evil power.
  Outside forces like the press and media could corrupt the young boy, and John wished his son to have the most normal of childhoods, in light of the circumstances.
  Inevitably power will corrupt its possessor - but some may resist its corrupting effect for longer than others.
  Further, he is a wrongdoer in corrupting the young.
  Here's hoping fame doesn't corrupt them, because these boys are bound to go very far indeed.
  This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws.
  Having power in the government corrupted them.
  It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation.
  But they are increasing their power, slowly corrupting the very foundations of the world and even the hearts of men.
  Synonyms
  pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence
2Change or debase by making errors or unintentional alterations.
使有讹误；使出错
Epicurus's teachings have since been much corrupted
伊壁鸠鲁的学说后来被掺杂了许多讹误。
Example sentencesExamples
- As we speak, Esperanto is being corrupted by upstart languages.
- The process of market research has been corrupted by paid research.
- We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening.
- A message entirely without redundancy may contain the maximum amount of information, but cannot be corrected if it is corrupted in some way, because there is no ‘spare’ material to check with.
- But then Redmond apparently got wind of the survey, and the innocent poll was swiftly corrupted.
- Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product.
Synonyms
alter, falsify, manipulate, tamper with, interfere with, tinker with, doctor, distort
1. 2.1 Cause errors to appear in (a computer program or database)
  使（计算机程序或数据库）出错；破坏
  a program that has somehow corrupted your system files
  一个不知怎么破坏了你的系统文件的程序。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You also run the risk of corrupting the data when writing back to the legacy database, since many applications have data that is updated from batch applications.
  There are also other types of technology that can be corrupted and optimised by spyware.
  His system processes accounting information but frequently crashes, corrupting the database.
  The bug is not thought to erase or corrupt information on the handsets, but may force users to turn the phone off and on again.
  This prevents servers from accessing storage resources not allocated to them, which could potentially corrupt valuable data.
  How many machines may be corrupted by the software before people become aware of the problem doesn't bear thinking about.
  That corrupted the data in its operational databases.
  The manufacturers found that by corrupting the error correction codes, they could make a CD that computers would reject, but that normal CD players would still manage to play.
  I have had some reports of errors in motherboards which corrupted a particular address of physical memory, perhaps due to a short circuit with an on-board peripheral.
  Not only can hardware failures occur, but viruses can also corrupt data making it impossible to retrieve.
  This too fell over midway through copying, again corrupting the target CD.
  Initially, the damage would probably be limited and relatively minor: perhaps spam messaging or corrupting data.
  Only then was it discovered that the virus had also corrupted the remote site's computer - meaning all copies of the source code were lost.
  The computer had managed to corrupt the program somehow, and the entire machine will have to be ‘refreshed.’
  According to company sources, the intruders had access for only 12 days, not six weeks as first reported, and did not corrupt any software in development.
  After the installation the virus then corrupts the handset's software and sends a multimedia message service to all the contact numbers in the contaminated cellphone.
  Since I was unable to ‘shut down’ properly, the hard drive would corrupt itself again, and the whole operation would repeat indefinitely.
  Do not develop and test new modules on a production machine, and test modules thoroughly to ensure they do not destabilize your system or corrupt your data.
  Even more diabolically, it kept finding and disabling or corrupting my anti-virus software, although it took me a little while to figure this out.
  Server downtime costs money, so nothing that might corrupt a byte here or a bit there and cause a crash can be tolerated.
3archaic Infect; contaminate.
〈古〉腐蚀；污染
the corrupting smell of death
死尸的腐烂气味。
Synonyms
bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off
pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence

Origin

Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.

单词	corrupt
释义	Definition of corrupt in English: corrupt adjective kəˈrʌptkəˈrəpt 1Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. 腐败的；堕落的 unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials 有腐败官员撑腰的肆无忌惮的伐木公司。 Example sentencesExamples Although the amount paid through companies was a little more, the stories of corrupt officials extracting money from otherwise honest taxpayers put many people off registering. Attempts to eradicate migration of young people for work will increase their reliance on corrupt officials and use of clandestine routes Unless one of the parties gives evidence, it is a Herculean task to prove that the receipt of money was for a corrupt purpose. I have cautioned him in the past that he could face serious, personal harm if he continued with his mission to expose illicit crime networks and corrupt official behaviour. They are seen (because they are) as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain. I would prefer instead to create my own small business with the money that would otherwise go into the pockets of corrupt officials. It has to do with the corrupt misuse of big money to subvert democracy. All we have noticed was that local syndicates were using corrupt government officials to defraud the state. ‘There's an assumption that our money is dirty and corrupt,’ he said. Dirty money flowing from abroad is criminal, corrupt, or commercially tax-evading at its source. Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job. The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed. Some borrowed money was pocketed by corrupt officials. The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials. I say we should ban the corrupt corporate money. One is forced to believe in rumours of corrupt officials selling quality produce to private shops for personal gain. This racketeering ring is aided and abetted by some corrupt police and licensing officials buttressed by some crooked bank employees. It is feared that it would only serve as another slush fund for corrupt government officials and politicians. I call on people to report any corrupt and illegal conduct concerning an election. While these benefited, half the money was stolen by corrupt officials. Synonyms dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, untrustworthy, underhand, deceitful, double-dealing, disreputable, discreditable, shameful, scandalous corruptible, bribable, buyable, venal, fraudulent, swindling, grafting, criminal, lawless, felonious, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous Law malfeasant informal crooked, shady, tricky, dirty, low-down, rascally, scoundrelly British informal bent, dodgy archaic hollow-hearted 1.1 Evil or morally depraved. 邪恶的；不道德的 the old corrupt order Example sentencesExamples It's not always a dispute between right and wrong or angels and devils; it's sometimes between two evils, within the corrupt core itself. By implication, authorities are immoral and culture is correspondingly morally corrupt. It is a morally corrupt institution run by a criminal bureaucracy. The group members confront the film industry types about their rotten films and corrupt lives. They began as innocent children and were gradually rendered wicked and evil and absolutely corrupt by the treatment they received at the hands of those they most trusted! It has led us to ruin; it is morally corrupt and its credibility is shot to pieces. Audiences had never before seen anything so noisy, so gritty, so morally corrupt - and they attended in droves. Just how did a single man sweep a nation with a morally corrupt and evil regime. Along with privilege and education, leisure brings choices, including those deemed by moralists to be evil or corrupt. Exposure to extreme violence turns them into machines driven by the will to survive in a corrupt and morally decadent world. I hope so, as it is clearly morally corrupt to give company heads millions of pounds when they have overseen a period of business resulting in job losses and cutbacks. Well, he an astonishing man - an astonishingly corrupt and evil man. There's something morally corrupt about that. It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt. With its rhetorical poses and elaborate decoration, it was often criticised by later generations, who not only considered it bad, but also morally corrupt. It's a quality many journalists would resist, but it is a moral position as valid as any other, and is only a weakness when applied to the evil and corrupt. I, for the most part, think they are all evil, lying, corrupt individuals. He finds them incompatible; one is good, right, and pure, the other corrupt, evil, and hypocritical. It seems to me that we have pretty wisely recognized, over time, that in fact a person's ostensible theology tells us pretty little about how corrupt or evil he's going to be. Yet the main purpose of the book is to tackle perennial ethical conundrums: How do we handle prosperity without becoming morally corrupt? Synonyms sinful, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, profane, blasphemous, impious, impure immoral, depraved, degenerate, reprobate, vice-ridden, perverted, debauched, dissolute, dissipated, intemperate, decadent, profligate, wanton, abandoned, immodest, lustful, lascivious, lewd, lecherous, sordid bad, wicked, evil, base, low informal warped 2(of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations. （文章或手稿）讹误充斥的；漏洞百出的 a progressively corrupt magnetic record is usable nonetheless Example sentencesExamples Only corrupt manuscripts can produce so many departures. The text is corrupt and broken, and the original books, apparently eight in number, have a disturbed sequence. The doctrine is greatly harmed here by the corrupt text. The text is believed to be corrupt, the manuscript tradition poor, and the editor on a tea-break. This is most amusing and shows how captive the Revisers are to their corrupt text. Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos. The traditional explanation for this was that their texts are extremely corrupt as a result of their reconstruction from memory by a member, or members, of their cast. Although the Arabic text is slightly corrupt at both places where this person's name is mentioned, that is the only plausible way to read the name. Those who wrote the corrupt manuscripts had no trouble with the other commandments shown here. It has become a corrupt text, with countless additions, cuts and changes ossifying into tradition over the years. 3archaic (of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid. 〈古〉腐坏的；腐烂的 a corrupt and rotting corpse 一具腐烂的尸体。 Example sentencesExamples When the cell divides, the corrupt protein is contained in both daughter cells, where it seeds the process again. A vintner found selling corrupt wine was forced to drink it, then banned from the trade. The food and water are so corrupt that a Western traveler is almost guaranteed sickness. The first of the non-naturals was the consideration of air: good air encouraged and maintained good health, while corrupt air could throw the humours out of balance and cause illness. Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt. verb kəˈrʌptkəˈrəpt [with object] 1Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. 腐败的；堕落的 there is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts 人们一直担心公司为了寻求合同而去贿赂政客。 Example sentencesExamples All three deal with the way money corrupts people, but more specifically, how every transaction in life is based on money and how the intersection of money and personal relationships destroys or, at very best, warps everyone's life. Congress itself saw that the money flow needed to be stemmed, for the money was corrupting the process. Money corrupts the process, of course, but voters have let that happen, let rich people and organizations have an influence on the process that ordinary folks can't match. Essentially it was a modern and very predictable parable about - yes you've guessed it - how the beautiful game has been corrupted by money. Far from money corrupting our appreciation of art, it often opens up important questions of quality and critical esteem. To avoid being corrupted by money in this manner, we simply remove it from the equation. Both are corrupted by corporate money almost beyond redemption. I may have an impoverished imagination, but the only explanation that seems to fit is the mundane power of money to corrupt one's beliefs. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home. While I agree that both parties are almost hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and power, the hope for a viable third party here is still very slim. I can look to my brother to see how the lust for that money can corrupt an entire personality. He was a frugal man himself and he feared that the money would corrupt both his family and the strict religious principles of his regime. Macbeth, honest and humble, was corrupted by the powers of fortune. When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up. The author's focus on how money corrupts the political process is dead right, of course, but it's hardly original. Thomsby's concerns weren't based solely on his fear that power would corrupt most individuals, although that was a very real possibility. All governments and politicians are corrupted by power. And afterwards I became more like I was before I'd been corrupted by all that money and excess. The masses are too immersed in suspicions that money has corrupted sports beyond hope. As a celebrity, I became corrupted by sex and money. Synonyms bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off informal grease someone's palm, give someone a backhander, give someone a sweetener, keep someone sweet, get at, fix, square British informal nobble 1.1 Cause to become morally depraved. 邪恶的；不道德的 he has corrupted the boy 他把这男孩带坏了。 Example sentencesExamples Here's hoping fame doesn't corrupt them, because these boys are bound to go very far indeed. This Ring, ‘the Ring to rule them all’, had the power to corrupt any person who possessed it. I was drawn astray by the promise of power, and it corrupted my poor mind. The moral consideration of Animal Farm is that power corrupts people. But they are increasing their power, slowly corrupting the very foundations of the world and even the hearts of men. It can become corrupted by power and privilege. Outside forces like the press and media could corrupt the young boy, and John wished his son to have the most normal of childhoods, in light of the circumstances. There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden. Ostensibly, we are protecting minors from being morally corrupted by adults? Having power in the government corrupted them. We cannot be trusted with domination, becoming too easily corrupted by its power and too often succumbing to repression in defending it. It is interesting how world power has corrupted this country. This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws. Her acts of horror and blasphemy indicate she became corrupted by the evil power. Further, he is a wrongdoer in corrupting the young. Media companies are ruining democracy and corrupting our public life. It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation. Inevitably power will corrupt its possessor - but some may resist its corrupting effect for longer than others. On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers. This is bad, for they are already being corrupted by their own power and I fear I'm now powerless to resist - that's why I'm cowering away in this place. Synonyms pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence archaic demoralize 2Change or debase by making errors or unintentional alterations. 使有讹误；使出错 a backup copy will be needed if the original copy becomes corrupted Epicurus's teachings have since been much corrupted 伊壁鸠鲁的学说后来被掺杂了许多讹误。 Example sentencesExamples The process of market research has been corrupted by paid research. As we speak, Esperanto is being corrupted by upstart languages. Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product. We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening. But then Redmond apparently got wind of the survey, and the innocent poll was swiftly corrupted. A message entirely without redundancy may contain the maximum amount of information, but cannot be corrected if it is corrupted in some way, because there is no ‘spare’ material to check with. Synonyms alter, falsify, manipulate, tamper with, interfere with, tinker with, doctor, distort adulterate, bastardize, dilute, contaminate, taint informal fiddle with, cook rare vitiate 3archaic Infect; contaminate. 〈古〉腐蚀；污染 the corrupting smell of death 死尸的腐烂气味。 Synonyms bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence Derivatives corrupter noun kəˈrʌptəkəˈrəptər Corruption at all levels in the public and private sector is so widespread and systematic, partly because some laws tend to protect corrupters through its weakness. Example sentencesExamples Where's the accountability for these corrupters? After that, he may probe other, bigger cases which siphoned off trillions in state funds, with most of the money since having been stashed abroad by the corrupters. The protesters also urged the government to arrest big-time corrupters, whom they blamed for partly contributing to the fuel price hikes. Prosecuting big-time corrupters has proven to be a formidable task even after four years under the reform movement. corruptibility noun kəˌrʌptəˈbɪlətikəˌrəptəˈbɪlədi mass noun 1The quality of being able to be persuaded to act dishonestly or immorally for personal gain. a cynical view of the corruptibility of human nature Example sentencesExamples times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility ‘The people’ do not rule; their elected representatives actually do so, and with widely varying degrees of potency, efficiency, honesty or corruptibility. It's hard to make a good film noir if you're uncomfortable with your audience's corruptibility. This sorrowful issue gave rise to some sternness it must be said, as his Lordship's minor intellect and obvious corruptibility had brought shame on the entire legal profession. the corruptibility of control mechanisms writers warn us about the corruptibility of language in the wrong hands 2Ability to be changed or debased through errors or unintentional alterations. 使有讹误；使出错 corruptible adjective kəˈrʌptəb(ə)lkəˈrəptəb(ə)l It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Example sentencesExamples They believed he was independent and vigorous - as well as no longer corruptible because he had already accumulated enormous wealth. For Plato himself, a study of mathematics and geometry leads the mind away from the corruptible and perishable to the contemplation of true Being and eternal order. What's worse, many firms just don't pay, especially where poor bankruptcy laws and corruptible courts prevent the seizure of debtors' assets. And perhaps even forgotten, for what use is a corruptible and degradable original when digital copies can be searched and cloned at the click of a mouse? corruptive adjective kəˈrʌptɪvkəˈrəptɪv By contrast, there is much evidence that the post-1913 system has been deeply corruptive. Example sentencesExamples Power is not inherently virtuous (and power is not inherently corruptive, either). Protecting the integrity of racing from corruptive forces is his priority - and the investigation into claims of skulduggery following the explosion in betting exchanges are top of his ‘to do’ list. Rather an action, or set of actions, is corruptive of an institution in so far as the action, or actions, have a negative moral effect on the institution. Nothing is gained, however, by calling melodrama, or melodramatic violence, morally corruptive. corruptly adverb They have taken with them at least US $5 billion in corruptly obtained earnings. Example sentencesExamples If that particular licence or approval or authority has been obtained on the basis of a bribe, i.e. obtained corruptly, that can have ramifications for the organisation when it comes to make future investments. If a university had been caught taking money from a private school in exchange for lowering the entrance criteria for its pupils, the government would have accused it, quite rightly, of behaving corruptly and unfairly. He also stressed that the money - which represents a fraction of his estimated $1.4 billion fortune - had been earned legitimately through business, not corruptly in office. Every elector who corruptly accepts or takes any such food, drink, entertainment, or provision also commits the offence of treating. corruptness noun kəˈrʌptnəskəˈrəptnəs Basically, according to him, the corruptness is inside a man already. Example sentencesExamples This appears to be the moment to finally establish in everyone's mind the deep fraudulence and corruptness of his various enterprises. Had he changed his mind about the administration's alleged corruptness? Their behaviour - and apparently the travel fraud is spread across different political parties - speaks of moral corruptness. For all the dangers and encounters he has been involved in, this man is still naive of the corruptness of other individuals. Origin Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere 'mar, bribe, destroy', from cor- 'altogether' + rumpere 'to break'. Corrupt comes from Latin corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ and rumpere ‘to break’. Also from rumpere are disrupt (Late Middle English) ‘break apart’; eruption (Late Middle English) a breaking out; interrupt (Late Middle English) ‘to break between’. See words at rut Rhymes abrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, irrupt Definition of corrupt in US English: corrupt adjectivekəˈrəptkəˈrəpt 1Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. 腐败的；堕落的 unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials 有腐败官员撑腰的肆无忌惮的伐木公司。 Example sentencesExamples It has to do with the corrupt misuse of big money to subvert democracy. I say we should ban the corrupt corporate money. One is forced to believe in rumours of corrupt officials selling quality produce to private shops for personal gain. It is feared that it would only serve as another slush fund for corrupt government officials and politicians. While these benefited, half the money was stolen by corrupt officials. I call on people to report any corrupt and illegal conduct concerning an election. All we have noticed was that local syndicates were using corrupt government officials to defraud the state. Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job. They are seen (because they are) as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain. Although the amount paid through companies was a little more, the stories of corrupt officials extracting money from otherwise honest taxpayers put many people off registering. The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials. This racketeering ring is aided and abetted by some corrupt police and licensing officials buttressed by some crooked bank employees. ‘There's an assumption that our money is dirty and corrupt,’ he said. The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed. Dirty money flowing from abroad is criminal, corrupt, or commercially tax-evading at its source. Attempts to eradicate migration of young people for work will increase their reliance on corrupt officials and use of clandestine routes I would prefer instead to create my own small business with the money that would otherwise go into the pockets of corrupt officials. Unless one of the parties gives evidence, it is a Herculean task to prove that the receipt of money was for a corrupt purpose. Some borrowed money was pocketed by corrupt officials. I have cautioned him in the past that he could face serious, personal harm if he continued with his mission to expose illicit crime networks and corrupt official behaviour. Synonyms dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, untrustworthy, underhand, deceitful, double-dealing, disreputable, discreditable, shameful, scandalous 1.1 Evil or morally depraved. 邪恶的；不道德的 the play can do no harm since its audience is already corrupt 这个戏不会带来什么坏处，因为它的观众已经堕落了。 Example sentencesExamples He finds them incompatible; one is good, right, and pure, the other corrupt, evil, and hypocritical. Just how did a single man sweep a nation with a morally corrupt and evil regime. By implication, authorities are immoral and culture is correspondingly morally corrupt. They began as innocent children and were gradually rendered wicked and evil and absolutely corrupt by the treatment they received at the hands of those they most trusted! There's something morally corrupt about that. It is a morally corrupt institution run by a criminal bureaucracy. I, for the most part, think they are all evil, lying, corrupt individuals. Exposure to extreme violence turns them into machines driven by the will to survive in a corrupt and morally decadent world. Audiences had never before seen anything so noisy, so gritty, so morally corrupt - and they attended in droves. Along with privilege and education, leisure brings choices, including those deemed by moralists to be evil or corrupt. Well, he an astonishing man - an astonishingly corrupt and evil man. It's not always a dispute between right and wrong or angels and devils; it's sometimes between two evils, within the corrupt core itself. It's a quality many journalists would resist, but it is a moral position as valid as any other, and is only a weakness when applied to the evil and corrupt. With its rhetorical poses and elaborate decoration, it was often criticised by later generations, who not only considered it bad, but also morally corrupt. I hope so, as it is clearly morally corrupt to give company heads millions of pounds when they have overseen a period of business resulting in job losses and cutbacks. Yet the main purpose of the book is to tackle perennial ethical conundrums: How do we handle prosperity without becoming morally corrupt? It has led us to ruin; it is morally corrupt and its credibility is shot to pieces. It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt. It seems to me that we have pretty wisely recognized, over time, that in fact a person's ostensible theology tells us pretty little about how corrupt or evil he's going to be. The group members confront the film industry types about their rotten films and corrupt lives. Synonyms sinful, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, profane, blasphemous, impious, impure 2(of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations. （文章或手稿）讹误充斥的；漏洞百出的 Example sentencesExamples This is most amusing and shows how captive the Revisers are to their corrupt text. Those who wrote the corrupt manuscripts had no trouble with the other commandments shown here. The traditional explanation for this was that their texts are extremely corrupt as a result of their reconstruction from memory by a member, or members, of their cast. Only corrupt manuscripts can produce so many departures. The text is believed to be corrupt, the manuscript tradition poor, and the editor on a tea-break. The doctrine is greatly harmed here by the corrupt text. The text is corrupt and broken, and the original books, apparently eight in number, have a disturbed sequence. Although the Arabic text is slightly corrupt at both places where this person's name is mentioned, that is the only plausible way to read the name. Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos. It has become a corrupt text, with countless additions, cuts and changes ossifying into tradition over the years. 3archaic (of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid. 〈古〉腐坏的；腐烂的 a corrupt and rotting corpse 一具腐烂的尸体。 Example sentencesExamples The first of the non-naturals was the consideration of air: good air encouraged and maintained good health, while corrupt air could throw the humours out of balance and cause illness. When the cell divides, the corrupt protein is contained in both daughter cells, where it seeds the process again. Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt. The food and water are so corrupt that a Western traveler is almost guaranteed sickness. A vintner found selling corrupt wine was forced to drink it, then banned from the trade. verbkəˈrəptkəˈrəpt [with object] 1Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. 腐败的；堕落的 there is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts 人们一直担心公司为了寻求合同而去贿赂政客。 Example sentencesExamples Money corrupts the process, of course, but voters have let that happen, let rich people and organizations have an influence on the process that ordinary folks can't match. Thomsby's concerns weren't based solely on his fear that power would corrupt most individuals, although that was a very real possibility. Macbeth, honest and humble, was corrupted by the powers of fortune. Essentially it was a modern and very predictable parable about - yes you've guessed it - how the beautiful game has been corrupted by money. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home. He was a frugal man himself and he feared that the money would corrupt both his family and the strict religious principles of his regime. The author's focus on how money corrupts the political process is dead right, of course, but it's hardly original. When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up. Far from money corrupting our appreciation of art, it often opens up important questions of quality and critical esteem. As a celebrity, I became corrupted by sex and money. Congress itself saw that the money flow needed to be stemmed, for the money was corrupting the process. All governments and politicians are corrupted by power. Both are corrupted by corporate money almost beyond redemption. The masses are too immersed in suspicions that money has corrupted sports beyond hope. To avoid being corrupted by money in this manner, we simply remove it from the equation. I may have an impoverished imagination, but the only explanation that seems to fit is the mundane power of money to corrupt one's beliefs. I can look to my brother to see how the lust for that money can corrupt an entire personality. While I agree that both parties are almost hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and power, the hope for a viable third party here is still very slim. And afterwards I became more like I was before I'd been corrupted by all that money and excess. All three deal with the way money corrupts people, but more specifically, how every transaction in life is based on money and how the intersection of money and personal relationships destroys or, at very best, warps everyone's life. Synonyms bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off 1.1 Cause to become morally depraved. 邪恶的；不道德的 he has corrupted the boy 他把这男孩带坏了。 Example sentencesExamples Ostensibly, we are protecting minors from being morally corrupted by adults? It is interesting how world power has corrupted this country. We cannot be trusted with domination, becoming too easily corrupted by its power and too often succumbing to repression in defending it. On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers. There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden. Media companies are ruining democracy and corrupting our public life. This is bad, for they are already being corrupted by their own power and I fear I'm now powerless to resist - that's why I'm cowering away in this place. This Ring, ‘the Ring to rule them all’, had the power to corrupt any person who possessed it. I was drawn astray by the promise of power, and it corrupted my poor mind. The moral consideration of Animal Farm is that power corrupts people. It can become corrupted by power and privilege. Her acts of horror and blasphemy indicate she became corrupted by the evil power. Outside forces like the press and media could corrupt the young boy, and John wished his son to have the most normal of childhoods, in light of the circumstances. Inevitably power will corrupt its possessor - but some may resist its corrupting effect for longer than others. Further, he is a wrongdoer in corrupting the young. Here's hoping fame doesn't corrupt them, because these boys are bound to go very far indeed. This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws. Having power in the government corrupted them. It is morally devastating and corrupts men by cumulative temptation. But they are increasing their power, slowly corrupting the very foundations of the world and even the hearts of men. Synonyms pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence 2Change or debase by making errors or unintentional alterations. 使有讹误；使出错 Epicurus's teachings have since been much corrupted 伊壁鸠鲁的学说后来被掺杂了许多讹误。 Example sentencesExamples As we speak, Esperanto is being corrupted by upstart languages. The process of market research has been corrupted by paid research. We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening. A message entirely without redundancy may contain the maximum amount of information, but cannot be corrected if it is corrupted in some way, because there is no ‘spare’ material to check with. But then Redmond apparently got wind of the survey, and the innocent poll was swiftly corrupted. Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product. Synonyms alter, falsify, manipulate, tamper with, interfere with, tinker with, doctor, distort 2.1 Cause errors to appear in (a computer program or database) 使（计算机程序或数据库）出错；破坏 a program that has somehow corrupted your system files 一个不知怎么破坏了你的系统文件的程序。 Example sentencesExamples You also run the risk of corrupting the data when writing back to the legacy database, since many applications have data that is updated from batch applications. There are also other types of technology that can be corrupted and optimised by spyware. His system processes accounting information but frequently crashes, corrupting the database. The bug is not thought to erase or corrupt information on the handsets, but may force users to turn the phone off and on again. This prevents servers from accessing storage resources not allocated to them, which could potentially corrupt valuable data. How many machines may be corrupted by the software before people become aware of the problem doesn't bear thinking about. That corrupted the data in its operational databases. The manufacturers found that by corrupting the error correction codes, they could make a CD that computers would reject, but that normal CD players would still manage to play. I have had some reports of errors in motherboards which corrupted a particular address of physical memory, perhaps due to a short circuit with an on-board peripheral. Not only can hardware failures occur, but viruses can also corrupt data making it impossible to retrieve. This too fell over midway through copying, again corrupting the target CD. Initially, the damage would probably be limited and relatively minor: perhaps spam messaging or corrupting data. Only then was it discovered that the virus had also corrupted the remote site's computer - meaning all copies of the source code were lost. The computer had managed to corrupt the program somehow, and the entire machine will have to be ‘refreshed.’ According to company sources, the intruders had access for only 12 days, not six weeks as first reported, and did not corrupt any software in development. After the installation the virus then corrupts the handset's software and sends a multimedia message service to all the contact numbers in the contaminated cellphone. Since I was unable to ‘shut down’ properly, the hard drive would corrupt itself again, and the whole operation would repeat indefinitely. Do not develop and test new modules on a production machine, and test modules thoroughly to ensure they do not destabilize your system or corrupt your data. Even more diabolically, it kept finding and disabling or corrupting my anti-virus software, although it took me a little while to figure this out. Server downtime costs money, so nothing that might corrupt a byte here or a bit there and cause a crash can be tolerated. 3archaic Infect; contaminate. 〈古〉腐蚀；污染 the corrupting smell of death 死尸的腐烂气味。 Synonyms bribe, suborn, buy, buy off, pay off pervert, debauch, deprave, warp, subvert, make degenerate, lead astray, debase, degrade, defile, sully, infect, influence Origin Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
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