名词腐败; 贪污; 贿赂; 变体
1. 贪污：访谈动机 贪污(corruption)是一项历史久远、全球普及的社会病态行为,亦是舆论及社会各界长期关注和讨论的重要议题. 但在对贪污...
1. 腐败;贪污;受贿
Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
e.g. The President faces 54 charges of corruption and tax evasion...
总统面临54项腐败和逃税的指控。
e.g. Distribution of food throughout the country is being hampered by inefficiency and corruption.
低效和腐败行为阻碍了食品在全国的分发。
2. (单词的)变体
In linguistics, a corruption is a word that is derived from an earlier word, but which has become changed in some way.
e.g. 'Morris' is an English corruption of 'Moorish', meaning North African.
Morris 在英语中是 Moorish 的变体，意思是“北非的”。
1. The yearbook evaluated 58 key countries on economic and corruption indicators, government and business efficiency along with infrastructure and exports.
2. Both men were convicted earlier of perverting the course of justice by disclosing the identity of a witness protected by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
3. The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate also direct the trial and procuratorial work of corruption cases by means of judicial interpretations.
4. China should try to adopt Singapore standards in eradicating corruption by building the rule of law although this cannot be achieved overnight.
5. The intensified fight against corruption shows the country's endeavor to fight official wrongdoing, which has already seen real actions instead of empty slogans.
6. So why don't we call a spade a spade and call corruption corruption?
7. The online poll echoed Premier Wen Jiabao's call for cracking down on corruption in the public sector on Monday.
8. The establishment of a national organ on preventing corruption will sound the clarion call to fight the scourge from its very root.
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9. It has been rocked with corruption scandals this season and has seen its top clubs call for a reform and threaten to pull out.
10. The watchdog called on the Party to improve the work style of the Party, build a clean government and fight corruption.
noun
1. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
e.g. he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
2. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty
undermining moral integrity
e.g. corruption of a minor
the big city's subversion of rural innocence
Synonym: subversion
3. corruption的近义词
3. moral perversion
impairment of virtue and moral principles
e.g. the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Synonym: degeneracy depravation depravity putrefaction
4. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)
use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
Synonym: corruptness
5. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
6. in a state of progressive putrefaction
Synonym: putrescence putridness rottenness