• vt. 使墮落；使頹廢
• n. 放蕩
• vi. 放蕩；誘使做不道德的事

來自古法語debaucher, 偏離，逃離工作職責(zé)。詞源不詳，可能來自de-, 向下，-bauch, 桿，欄桿，詞源同balk, balcony, 即掉落欄桿的，詞義由掉落引申為墮落。

debauch (v.)

1590s, from Middle French débaucher "entice from work or duty," from Old French desbaucher "to lead astray," supposedly literally "to trim (wood) to make a beam" (from bauch "beam," from Frankish balk or some other Germanic source akin to English balk (n.)). A sense of "shaving" something away, perhaps, but the root is also said to be a word meaning "workshop," which gets toward the notion of "to lure someone off the job;" either way the sense evolution is unclear.

1. You can hardly expect unquestioning obedience from last night's partner in a debauch.

從昨晚有位搭檔的放蕩之后,你將不再期待任何堅定不移的聽從.

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2. Printing money would worsen inflation, debauch the currency and bring a balance - of - payments crisis.

啟用印刷鈔只能造成通貨膨脹惡化, 貨幣脫韁,收支平衡將墮入困局.

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