Today in America, we have something called corporate personhood, which has gone a long way to corrupting our elections.

在今日美国， 存在一种名为“公司人” 象，这一概念已深远地腐蚀了我们选举制度。

But some tenacious pathogens, including the ones that cause botulism and tetanus, make it through this caustic cauldron and thrive in the intestines beyond.

但是一些顽固病原体，包括一些导致肉毒中毒和破伤风病原体比较好地避开腐蚀性环境，在肠道之外存活繁衍。

Others were horrified at how greed and elitism could so easily corrupt one of our nation's most sacred institutions, higher education.

其他人则对贪婪和精英主义如此轻易地腐蚀我们国家最神圣机构之一——高等教育感到震惊。

Nor, despite St Paul's aphorism, was the lure of lucre during the experiment (as opposed to the effect of thinking about it as a result of being primed) necessary as a corrupting influence.

尽管圣保尔言并非毫无道理，但并不一定证明就是试验中利益诱惑才如此广泛地腐蚀了人们纯洁心灵（该观点反对将实验结果归于事先所灌输观念）。