To have any hope of overcoming these challenges, we have to start by reclaiming our civic dialogue from those who are debasing and degrading it — and preventing us from getting things done.

为了争取克服这些挑战，必须让那些阻实现目标和贬低文明对话的人无法得逞。

Other new sources of revenue included debasing the coinage, which caused inflation so bad that the government would not accept its own Roman money in payment of Roman taxes.

其它的政府收入来源包括将货币贬值，造成严重的通货膨胀，以至于政府都愿意接受以罗马货币缴纳的税款。

Let's not debase ourselves with word games, son.

别纠结这个文字游戏了 儿子。

He was playing to debase of the Republican party.

他正在削减共和党的价值。

They said I had debased the entire family and that they couldn't love me anymore until I changed.

他说令整个家族蒙羞，改变之前他会再爱。

But apparently he doesn't. He is planning to debase the Republican party.

然而，很显然他没有。他正在削减共和党的价值。

Debasing yourself to get ahead in life.

贬低自己以在人生中取得成功。

I just don't want to debase it in that way, but yes.

就是想那样贬低它，但确实是这样。

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

每一个想要的存在更新都会因为成为半合金而被贬低。

I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken.

敢对这种恶意的暗示做任何回应，这将人的理解力贬低到普通猎狗之下，而猎狗至少有足够的判断力来区分并跟随猎犬群中最优秀的一只的声，会出错。

The glorious light of this tender and refined passion seemed to have become debased to burlesque hues by pure accident, and his aesthetic no less than his ethic taste was offended by such an anti-climax.

这种温柔而优雅的激情所发出的光辉似乎完全出于偶然而沦为滑稽的色彩，他的审美和他的道德品味都被这种反高潮所冒犯。

True, but they then become tyrants; for it is not rational freedom, but a lawless kind of power, resembling the authority exercised by the favourites of absolute monarchs, which they obtain by debasing means.

是的，但他后来变成了暴君； 因为这是理性的自由， 而是一种无法无天的权力， 类似于专制君主的宠儿所行使的权力， 是他通过贬低手段获得的。

He was debasing his coinage during his reign, so he knew he was running out of money, and so Andronicus abandoned the navy to try and stop the bleeding.

他在统治期间贬值了货币，因此他知道钱快用完了，于是安德罗尼克放弃了海军以试图血。

Must they always be debased by being made to consider the sex of their companions? Must they be taught always to be pleasing?

他必须总是因为被迫考虑同伴的性别而被贬低吗？必须教导他总是讨人喜欢吗？

You've debased yourself in terms of like, you know, no one looks at America the same way again for the last 20 years.

你让自己堕落到了这种地步，就像过去20年来，再也没人能以原来的眼光看待美国了。

But nonetheless, it's this idea that you want to hold gold because nothing else is safe, everything else is getting debased.

然而， 尽管如此， 持有黄金的想法是基于其他所有东西都安全，都在贬值。

So to prove that the Romans were the bosses here, they started to debase and humiliate the nobles.

所以为了证明罗马人是这里的主宰，他开始贬低和羞辱贵族。

But at least you don't debase yourself in the process of bringing in a mercenary, someone else's legend.

但至少在引进一个雇佣兵、别人的传奇人物的过程中，你没有贬低自己。

How power can corrupt and fear can compound and language can be debased.

权力如何腐败，恐惧如何复合，语言如何被贬低。

He had gone away rejected and mortified—disappointed in a very sanguine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement; and not only losing the right lady, but finding himself debased to the level of a very wrong one.

他被拒绝和羞愧地离开了——在一系列在他看来强烈的鼓励之后，在一种非常乐观的希望中感到失望;仅失去了合适的女士，而且发现自己被贬低到一个非常错误的女士的水平。