| 词组 | pervert |
| 释义 | pervert Pervert is used with into, to, or by: • ... those who pervert honest criticism into falsification of fact —Franklin D. Roosevelt, fireside chat, 28 Apr. 1942, in Nothing to Fear, ed. B. D. Zevin, 1946 • According to Sadat, Ali Sabri perverted it into an instrument that gave him personal control over large parts of the country —Joseph Kraft, New Yorker, 18 Sept. 1971 • ... those who pervert good words to careless misuse —Jacques Barzun, Atlantic, December 1953 • There is no possible way to prevent peaceful atoms from being perverted to warlike purposes —More-head Patterson, quoted in The Reporter, 12 Jan. 1956 • The habit of perverting values by subordinating the eternal to the temporal —Times Literary Supp., 23 May 1942 • They have perverted the concept of academic freedom by broadening its scope to include social action —Ronald Reagan, Change, July-August 1969 Somewhat less frequently, pervert is followed by for, from, or with: • ... perverting justice for reactionary political ends —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall ofthe Third Reich, 1960 • ... were not only impeded but spoiled and perverted from their true nature —Robert A. Hall, Jr., A Short History of Italian Literature, 1951 • Luther protested against a Catholic Church that had ... perverted it [Scripture] with casuistry —Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoon, 1910 |
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