英汉词典

sleaze 基本解释

• n. 劣等品；卑鄙的人；肮脏；不名誉的状况
• vi. 松松垮垮地进行；缓慢无力地移动

sleaze 英文词源

sleaze

sleaze: [20] It is common practice to name fabrics after their place of manufacture, and from the 17th century that applied to cloth made in Silesia (a region in east-central Europe, now mainly within Poland), and in particular to a type of fine linen or cotton. It did not take long for Silesia to be worn down to Slesia or Sleasia and finally to Sleasie. Also in the 17th century we find sleasie being applied as an adjective to fabrics that are thin or flimsy, and although a connection between the two usages has never been proved, the closeness of meaning seems unlikely to be coincidental.

Soon sleasie (or sleazy) was being used metaphorically for ‘slight, flimsy, insubstantial’. It took a sudden sideways semantic leap in the 1930s and 40s when it began to be used as a term of moral disapproval, denoting squalor, depravity or slatternliness, and it was in this sense that the back-formed noun sleaze first emerged in the 1960s. Then in the 1980s the word shifted its target from sex to financially motivated misdemeanours, notably the taking of bribes (the new usage is first recorded in ‘The sleaze factor’, a chapter heading in the book Gambling with History (1983) by the US journalist Laurence Barrett).

sleaze (n.)

"condition of squalor," by 1967, back-formation from sleazy. Meaning "person of low moral standards," and the adjectival use, are attested from 1976.

sleaze 英文释义

1. tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

sleaze 双语例句

1. The candidate was seriously damaged by the sleaze factor.

那位候选人的形象因丑闻而受到严重损害。

来自《权威词典》

2. She claimed that an atmosphere of sleaze and corruption now surrounded the Government.

她宣称一股肮脏腐败之风充斥着整个政府。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The President denounced the press for engaging in "sleaze" and called the story a lie.

总统谴责媒体参与了肮脏交易，称该报道是谎言。

来自柯林斯例句

4. There was a lot of sleaze going on at that night club.

那夜总会的表演有很多是低三下四的.

来自辞典例句

5. There is no direct connection between the financial turmoil and political sleaze.

金融动荡和政治丑闻之间不存在直接联系.

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sleaze 实用场景例句

allegations of sleaze

关于舞弊的指控

牛津词典

The candidate was seriously damaged by the sleaze factor.

那位候选人的形象因丑闻而受到严重损害。

牛津词典

the sleaze of a town that was once a naval base

一度是海军基地的小城里那乌烟瘴气的社会氛围

牛津词典

She claimed that an atmosphere of sleaze and corruption now surrounded the Government...

她宣称一股肮脏腐败之风充斥着整个政府。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The President denounced the press for engaging in 'sleaze' and called the story a lie.

总统谴责媒体参与了肮脏交易，称该报道是谎言。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

His record of public service is untouched by any stain of shadiness or sleaze ( James J. Kilpatrick )

他的公共服务记录没有任何污点或不名誉之事 ( 詹姆斯J. 科尔帕里克 )

期刊摘选

There is no direct connection between the financial turmoil and political sleaze.

金融动荡和政治丑闻之间不存在直接联系.

期刊摘选

There was a lot of sleaze going on at that night club.

那夜总会的表演有很多是低三下四的.

辞典例句

The candidate was seriously damaged by the sleaze factor.

那位候选人的形象因丑闻而受到严重损害。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

She claimed that an atmosphere of sleaze and corruption now surrounded the Government.

她宣称一股肮脏腐败之风充斥着整个政府。

柯林斯例句

The President denounced the press for engaging in "sleaze" and called the story a lie.

总统谴责媒体参与了肮脏交易，称该报道是谎言。

柯林斯例句