vulgarize
/vuhl-guh-rahyz/US // ˈvʌl gəˌraɪz //UK // (ˈvʌlɡəˌraɪz) //
庸俗化,低俗化,俗化,低俗
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing.
- : to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- : to make easier to understand and more widely known; popularize.
- : to translate from a classical language into the vernacular.
Examples
To “paint” the subject merely to make it more real, is only to insult the imaginative power and to vulgarize the whole.
Please don't let the mention of money vulgarize a little friendly act like this.
That is not so painful; it does not vulgarize you so much as the cups they paint to-day and christen after me!
They lived in Victoria Villas, one of those smaller streets which copy and vulgarize the better ones in all London suburbs.
But whatever the cause, a vulgar paper will vulgarize any room, no matter what is done in the way of furniture.
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