vitiate
英 [ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt]
美 [ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt]
vitiate 伤害,削弱,损坏来自拉丁语vitium,错误,缺陷,污点,词源同vice,vicious。即中伤,找茬,伤害等。
- vitiate (v.)
- 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
- 1. But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
- 但这不会威胁到他的奖学金。
- 2. This may vitiate a literal translation.
- 这就会损害直译的价值。
- 3. No such Variation shall vitiate or invalidate this Contract.
- 任何该等变更都不会影响本合同或造成本合同失效.