This is a most unfortunate situation, because it tends to bring our most valuable grass species into disrepute . 这是一件很不幸的事情，因为它败坏了我们最宝贵的禾木科草品种的名誉。
The senescence of fruit, i.e. the deteriorative events which occur after ripening, has not been intensively studied . 果实的衰老，也就是成熟以后所产生的败坏过程，尚未被深入地研究。
I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality . 我认为让任何一种文化的人都接受他那个时代的标准就是一种最粗俗的道德败坏。
It is probable that the most deadly and the most demoralizing single instrumentality of present-day civilization is the automobile . 对现代文明的最致命的和最富有败坏性的独一无二的工具很可能要数汽车了。
Had people ever been as nasty, as self-indulgent, as dull, as miserable, as cocksure, as bad at art, as dismally ludicrous or as wrong as they'd been in the middle age-margaret's way of referring to the middle ages ? 人是不是从来都那么卑鄙、任性、愚笨、忧郁、狂妄、不懂艺术、荒谬绝伦、道德败坏，如他们在中世纪的玛格丽特所指的中世纪一样呢？
They debase the polished and current language of books, by the vile alloy of provincial idioms, and colloquial barbarism, the shame of grammar, making it akin to any language, rather than english . 他们公然想使文学沦为俗流，用乱七八糟的方言、粗野的土话、难登大雅之堂的文法以败坏现今出版物中典雅的文字，使之不伦不类，就是不像英文。
Our experience here in dixie with such depraved types of people has shown that only the death penalty, inflicted in a public and dramatic manner, has any influence upon their peculiar mentality . 我们这儿南方对付这班道德败坏的人的经验证明，只有死刑--而且要在大庭广众之间用戏剧性方式执行--才能对他们反常的心理产生影响。
He spotted his reputation by lying repeatedly 他因反复说谎而败坏了自己的名声。
