decadence
英 [ˈdekədəns]
美 [ˈdekədəns]
n. 堕落; 颓废; 贪图享乐
BNC.20570 / COCA.17922
牛津词典
noun
- 堕落;颓废;贪图享乐
behaviour, attitudes, etc. which show a fall in standards, especially moral ones, and an interest in pleasure and enjoyment rather than more serious things- the decadence of modern Western society
现代西方社会的颓废现象
- the decadence of modern Western society
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 堕落的;颓废的
If you say that a person or society isdecadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.- ...restrictions on the number of decadent western films that were allowed to be shown.
对颓靡的西方电影在上映数量上的限制 - ...the excesses and stresses of their decadent rock 'n' roll lifestyles.
他们颓废的摇滚生活的种种放浪及层层重压
- ...restrictions on the number of decadent western films that were allowed to be shown.
英英释义
noun
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
双语例句
- Dr Liao can remember when plastic surgery would have been seen as bourgeois decadence of the first order.
廖医生记得,要是在过去,整容手术会被看作头等的资产阶级腐化行为。 - His article has the power to turn decadence into legend.
他的文章具有化破朽为神奇的力量。 - I have been fighting the prevailing decadence for years.
多年来我一直在和盛行的颓废现象作斗争。 - These are my recent thought, I feel really decadence, but what can I do?
这就是最近的想法吧,感觉好颓废,可是我又能怎么办呢? - But beneath their masks of relaxation and joviality there was only sterility, meaninglessness and futility, and amid the grandeur and extravagance a spiritual wasteland and a hint of decadence and moral decay.
但在轻松享乐后留下的只是颓废和一无所取。在物质的奢华后是一片精神的荒原和道德沦丧。 - The decadence of morals is bad for nation.
道德的堕落对于国家是不利的。 - It was an age of decadence.
那是个颓废的时代。 - Although the period began with great promise in many fields, by1600 the Renaissance had petered out, leaving political chaos, theological uncertainty, and cultural decadence in its wake.
尽管在这时期的开始,在很多领域有很多重大的允诺,但到1600年时,文艺复兴运动已逐渐消失,残留著政治纷乱、神学的不确定性以及文化的颓废。 - The decadence of late Victorian art.
维多利亚晚期文艺的衰落。 - This renaissance is beginning now, when people least expect it, when people see only decadence and sterility.
这次复兴正在开始,它开始在人们最不能预料的时候,它开始在人们只看到衰朽和停滞的时候。