corruption是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 腐败， 腐化，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Ta-menay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For one life thousands would be saved from corruption and decay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Standing by the table, with hisfinger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishingabove his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr.Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning,would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver themost withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption ofmy aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, withmy note- book on my knee, fagging after him with all my mightand main.
-- which was a corruption of David.
-- 'Be silent, you!Look at me, I say,proud mother of a proud false son!Moan for your nurture of him,moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moanfor mine!'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall sound the depths of corruption in woman; you shall measure the extent of man's pitiful vanity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not suf-ficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By a "gentleman of fortune" they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the corruption of one of the honest hands perhaps of the last one left aboard.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thousands of years ago, that which was imminent in himself must have taken place in these Africans: the goodness, the holiness, the desire for creation and productive happiness must have lapsed, leaving the single impulse for knowledge in one sort, mindless progressive knowledge through the senses, knowledge arrested and ending in the senses, mystic knowledge in disintegration and dissolution, knowledge such as the beetles have, which live purely within the world of corruption and cold dissolution.
-- He had taken her at the roots of her darkness and shame like a demon, laughing over the fountain of mystic corruption which was one of the sources of her being, laughing, shrugging, accepting, accepting finally.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.
-- I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately intro-duced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer, and where the whole praise, as well as pillage, has been engrossed by the chief commander, who perhaps had the least title to either.
-- Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-chil-dren; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
-- 'These struldbrugs and I would mutually communicate our observations and memorials, through the course of time; remark the several gradations by which corruption steals into the world, and oppose it in every step, by giv-ing perpetual warning and instruction to mankind; which, added to the strong influence of our own example, would probably prevent that continual degeneracy of human na-ture so justly complained of in all ages.
-- Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us these were the themes of my childhood.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bethink thee of that saying of St. Paul in Corinthians, about corruption and incorruption; how that we are sown in dishonor, but raised in glory.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived af-terwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good fam-ily in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in Eng-land, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
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