a.
1.depraved,perverted,vitiated墮落的，邪惡的，敗壞的。
△Lr.2.2.108(102): “Harbour more craft and morecorrupter ends”，(Shakespeare often uses the doublecomparative.)包藏著更多的狡詐和惡意。
△H.VIII.1.2.116:“the mind growing once corrupt，”思想一旦敗壞。
△H.VIII.5.1.132(131): “At what ease / Might cor-rupt minds procure knaves as corrupt / To swear a-gainst you?”心地邪惡的人要收買一些跟他們同樣邪惡的壞蛋來賭咒發(fā)誓誣害你，又是多么容易呀？
2. perverted歪曲的。
△H.V.1.2.73:“Though in puretruth it was corrupt and naught，”不過說真話，這只是歪曲事實，毫無價值。
corrupt
vt.
1. make impure,deprave,vitiate使不純，使墮落，使道德敗壞。
△1H.IV.1.2.101(90):“O,thou hast damnableiteration,and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.”啊，你真會歪引經文，真能把一位圣徒帶壞。
△R.III.4.4.207:“And I’ll corrupt her manners,stain her beauty，”我要敗壞她的德性，污損她的美貌。
2. seduce,vitiate引誘，使道德敗壞。
△Oth.1.3.60:“She is abused,stolen from me,and corrupted / Byspells and medicines bought of mountebanks；”她被人騙了，拐走了，被人用符咒和從江湖醫(yī)生那里買來的毒藥給引誘墮落了。
△Oth.4.2.188(186): “The jewels you have hadfrom me to deliver to Desdemona would half have
corrupted a votarist.”你從我這里拿走送給苔絲狄蒙娜的那些珠寶差不多足夠誘惑一個修女了。
3. make impure,bribe腐蝕，收買。
△3H.VI.3.2.155:
“She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,/Toshrink mine arm up like a withered shrub，”她以賄賂收
買了意志薄弱的大自然，使我的手臂萎縮得像一根枯枝。
△H.Ⅷ.3.1.99:(100): “Heaven is above all yet;
there sits a judge/That no king can corrupt.”大家頭上還有青天；在天上還有一位國王無法收買(又譯：腐蝕)的法官?！玽i.rot腐爛。
△H.Ⅴ.5.2. 39:“And all her husband-ry doth lie on heaps,/Corrupting in it (= its) ownfertility.”她的一切莊稼堆在地里，豐饒的糧食白白爛掉。
corrupt[k??r?pt]
adj.腐敗的，貪污的，被破壞的，混濁的，（語法）誤用的v.使腐爛，腐蝕，使惡化墮落
‖ corrupt and incompetent腐敗無能
corrupt element貪污分子
corrupt practice舞弊行為
Corrupt Practices Acts反舞弊法
corrupt practices舞弊，行賄
corruptness n./corruption n.貪污腐化，腐敗，墮落
corruption and degeneration貪污腐化
corruption and embezzlement貪污挪用行為
corruption and taking bribes貪污受賄
corruption of blood血統(tǒng)污損
corruption of moral道德敗壞
corruption reporting center舉報中心
corrosion n.侵蝕，腐蝕
corruptible adj.易腐敗的
corruptibly adv./corruptionist n.腐敗分子，貪污分子，行賄受賄分子，舞弊政治家
corruptive adj.腐敗
corruptly adv. corruptness n.腐敗性，墮落性