词汇 | decadence |
释义 | decadenceWord family adjectivedecadentnoundecadenceadverbdecadently dec·a·dence /ˈdekədəns/ noun [uncountableU] BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSbehaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters 堕落,颓废 Examples from the Corpus decadence• It's full of blasphemy and decadence.• It encourages a cynical, destructive decadence.• Our age is not an age of decadence.• Female illiteracy, even in the well-off classes, is one of the characteristics of the decadence that led to colonization.• There is another dimension to the decadence of Britain and the Western world. (1700-1800) French décadence, from Latin decadere “to fall, sink” |
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