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- having 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。
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。
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- archaic (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。
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- (of a text or manuscript) debased or made unreliable by errors or alterations（文章或手稿）讹误充斥的; 漏洞百出的
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- (of a computer database or program) having had errors introduced（计算机数据库或程序）出错的; 被破坏的。
with obj.
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- cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain腐蚀; 向…行贿：
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。
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- cause to become morally depraved使不道德; 使堕落：
he has corrupted the boy.
他把这男孩带坏了。
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- archaic infect; contaminate〈古〉腐蚀; 污染：
as adj. corrupting the corrupting smell of death.死尸的腐烂气味。
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- （常作 be corrupted）change 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。
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- 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。
派生词
corrupter
nouncorruptibility
nouncorruptible
adjectivecorruptive
adjectivecorruptly
adverb词源
Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere 'mar, bribe, destroy', from cor- 'altogether' + rumpere 'to break'.