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Corrupt Immoral Dishonest Cookie Kə'Rʌpt Government Official Accepts

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Pron [kə'rʌpt]
Back 【CORRUPT】
If a government official accepts money to do things that he ought not to do, we say that he is corrupt.
如果一个政府官员收受了金钱而去做那些不该做的事,我们说他是腐败的。
【重点词汇】
corrupt adj. 腐败的 反: conscientious
Vocab
corruptnot straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

If someone or something is corrupt, they’re broken morally or in some other way. Corrupt people perform immoral or illegal acts for personal gain, without apology. Corrupt politicians take bribes and deny it.

When you corrupt someone, you convince them to do something wrong or even illegal. If you talk your little brother into stealing cookies from the cookie jar, you're corrupting him. Something corrupt is rotten, spoiled, or out of commission, like a file that makes your computer crash. A corrupt person — a criminal, a crook, or a cookie thief — brings society down with immoral and dishonest behavior. Corrupt goes back to the Latin roots cor-, "altogether," and rumpere, "break."

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