cor·rupt

adjective

/kəˈrʌpt/

(of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage贪污的；受贿的；腐败的；营私舞弊的
- It was seen as the only way to overthrow a corrupt regime.这被视为推翻腐败政权的唯一方法。
- They promised to seek out the corrupt officials who had accepted the bribes.他们承诺将追查收受贿赂的腐败官员。
- one of the most notoriously corrupt city councils贪污腐败最为臭名昭著的市议会之一
Topics Personal qualitiesc1, Crime and punishmentc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- become
adverb
- hopelessly
- thoroughly
- totally
- …
(of behaviour) not honest or moral不诚实的；不道德的
- They had been engaged in corrupt practices.他们曾从事腐败行为。
- The whole system is inefficient and corrupt.整个体系都效率低下并且腐败堕落。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- become
adverb
- hopelessly
- thoroughly
- totally
- …
(computing) containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state已变换的；有缺陷的；有错误的
- corrupt software已受损的软件
- The file on the disk seems to be corrupt.这张磁盘上的文件好像有错误。

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

verb

/kəˈrʌpt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they corrupt	/kəˈrʌpt/ /kəˈrʌpt/
he / she / it corrupts	/kəˈrʌpts/ /kəˈrʌpts/
past simple corrupted	/kəˈrʌptɪd/ /kəˈrʌptɪd/
past participle corrupted	/kəˈrʌptɪd/ /kəˈrʌptɪd/
-ing form corrupting	/kəˈrʌptɪŋ/ /kəˈrʌptɪŋ/

[transitive, intransitive] corrupt (somebody) to have a bad effect on somebody and make them behave in a way that is not honest or moral使腐化；使堕落
- He was corrupted by power and ambition.权力与野心使他腐化堕落。
- the corrupting effects of great wealth巨大财富的腐蚀作用
Topics Crime and punishmentc1
[transitive, often passive] corrupt something to change the original form of something, so that it is damaged or made less good in some way破坏；损坏
- a corrupted form of Buddhism一种蜕变了的佛教
[transitive, intransitive] corrupt (something) (computing) to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct; (of a computer file, etc.) to start containing mistakes 引起（计算机文件等的）错误；损坏；出错
- The program has somehow corrupted the system files.这程序莫名其妙地导致系统文件出错了。
- corrupted data被破坏数据
- The disk will corrupt if it is overloaded.磁盘如果过载，数据就会出错。
Topics Computersc2

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