a.
1.depraved,perverted,vitiated堕落的，邪恶的，败坏的。
△Lr.2.2.108(102): “Harbour more craft and morecorrupter ends”，(Shakespeare often uses the doublecomparative.)包藏着更多的狡诈和恶意。
△H.VIII.1.2.116:“the mind growing once corrupt，”思想一旦败坏。
△H.VIII.5.1.132(131): “At what ease / Might cor-rupt minds procure knaves as corrupt / To swear a-gainst you?”心地邪恶的人要收买一些跟他们同样邪恶的坏蛋来赌咒发誓诬害你，又是多么容易呀？
2. perverted歪曲的。
△H.V.1.2.73:“Though in puretruth it was corrupt and naught，”不过说真话，这只是歪曲事实，毫无价值。
corrupt
vt.
1. make impure,deprave,vitiate使不纯，使堕落，使道德败坏。
△1H.IV.1.2.101(90):“O,thou hast damnableiteration,and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.”啊，你真会歪引经文，真能把一位圣徒带坏。
△R.III.4.4.207:“And I’ll corrupt her manners,stain her beauty，”我要败坏她的德性，污损她的美貌。
2. seduce,vitiate引诱，使道德败坏。
△Oth.1.3.60:“She is abused,stolen from me,and corrupted / Byspells and medicines bought of mountebanks；”她被人骗了，拐走了，被人用符咒和从江湖医生那里买来的毒药给引诱堕落了。
△Oth.4.2.188(186): “The jewels you have hadfrom me to deliver to Desdemona would half have
corrupted a votarist.”你从我这里拿走送给苔丝狄蒙娜的那些珠宝差不多足够诱惑一个修女了。
3. make impure,bribe腐蚀，收买。
△3H.VI.3.2.155:
“She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,/Toshrink mine arm up like a withered shrub，”她以贿赂收
买了意志薄弱的大自然，使我的手臂萎缩得像一根枯枝。
△H.Ⅷ.3.1.99:(100): “Heaven is above all yet;
there sits a judge/That no king can corrupt.”大家头上还有青天；在天上还有一位国王无法收买(又译：腐蚀)的法官。～vi.rot腐烂。
△H.Ⅴ.5.2. 39:“And all her husband-ry doth lie on heaps,/Corrupting in it (= its) ownfertility.”她的一切庄稼堆在地里，丰饶的粮食白白烂掉。
corrupt[kəˈrʌpt]
adj.腐败的，贪污的，被破坏的，混浊的，（语法）误用的v.使腐烂，腐蚀，使恶化堕落
‖ corrupt and incompetent腐败无能
corrupt element贪污分子
corrupt practice舞弊行为
Corrupt Practices Acts反舞弊法
corrupt practices舞弊，行贿
corruptness n./corruption n.贪污腐化，腐败，堕落
corruption and degeneration贪污腐化
corruption and embezzlement贪污挪用行为
corruption and taking bribes贪污受贿
corruption of blood血统污损
corruption of moral道德败坏
corruption reporting center举报中心
corrosion n.侵蚀，腐蚀
corruptible adj.易腐败的
corruptibly adv./corruptionist n.腐败分子，贪污分子，行贿受贿分子，舞弊政治家
corruptive adj.腐败
corruptly adv. corruptness n.腐败性，堕落性