vitiate的经典引文是什么

1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;

   "debauch the young people with wine and women"
   "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"
   "Do school counselors subvert young children?"
   "corrupt the morals"
   

2. make imperfect;

   "nothing marred her beauty"
   

3. take away the legal force of or render ineffective;

   "invalidate a contract"
   

1.削弱…的效能;损害;使失效;使变质
If somethingis vitiated, its effectiveness is spoiled or weakened.

vitiate

e.g. Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between 'easterners' and 'westerners'...
由于“东方人”和“西方人”之间存在巨大的分歧，战争期间的战略方针没有得到切实的执行。
e.g. But this does notvitiate his scholarship.
但这不会威胁到他的奖学金。

• Lunch was a ritual vitiated by no base thoughts of nutrition.

  出自：S. Beckett

• The information that spies steal is..vitiated by the possibility that its sources are corrupt.

  出自：M. Frayn