| 单词 | decadence |
| 释义 | decadence noun[U] uk/ˈdek.ə.dəns/us/ˈdek.ə.dəns/lowmoralstandardsandbehaviour: 堕落，颓废，腐朽Westerndecadence西方的堕落 Morally wrong and evil
decadence| American Dictionarydecadence noun[U] us/ˈdek·ə·dəns/astateoflowstandardsin asociety;socialdecay decadentadjectiveus/ˈdek·ə·dənt/ The US waswidelycondemnedas a decadentsociety. Examplesofdecadencedecadence This provincial paradise would triumph over thedecadenceof metropolitan culture simply by escaping its infections. From theCambridge English Corpus Thedecadenceand detachment of the aesthetes was but the result of high capitalism and the necessary alienation of the worker from his task. From theCambridge English Corpus The former is popularly associated with poverty and living conditions, the latter (incorrectly) with socialdecadence. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather than search for solace in images of primitive virtue, the wine poem finds it in sophisticateddecadence. From theCambridge English Corpus It is he, above all, who represents imperialdecadenceand corruption. From theCambridge English Corpus He criticized what he called "literarydecadence," where meaning resides in flashes of insight but not in the text as a whole. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet, the ghazal is the very opposite of that image ofdecadence. From theCambridge English Corpus Part of this was an even stronger statement about the potential of music education to curb drunkenness,decadenceand social disruption amongst the working classes. From theCambridge English Corpus The past, furthermore, shows no sign ofdecadence: it must be freshly depicted in its original image and remain eternally young. From theCambridge English Corpus The conduct of the principals in these cases suggested thedecadenceand corruption of family life among the socially prominent and well-to-do. From theCambridge English Corpus The epitome of glamour anddecadencebefore the 1949 revolution, the city was punished for its capitalist excesses afterwards. From theCambridge English Corpus They are given to self-indulgence and dissolution or are infected by the evil ofdecadenceand corruption, thus causing many deplorable problems. From theCambridge English Corpus Man's total conquest of nature, it seems, has led todecadence. From theCambridge English Corpus Gissing's responses to missionary aestheticism reflected his own general ambivalence towards the two models of practical aestheticism and practicaldecadence. From theCambridge English Corpus However, within the monastic communitydecadenceand dissension increased. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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