Degrades

• The knowledge it brings you is bought too dear, Monsieur; this coming and going by stealth degrades your own dignity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It degrades to stoop; it is glorious to look up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the European cities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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