词汇：degrade

vt. 使……丢脸；使……降级；使……降解；贬低

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If you have artistic inclinations and fear that the search for wealth will coarsen such talents or degrade them, you will never get rich. (Because your fear, in this instance, is well justified.)
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如果你有艺术倾向，担心对财富的追求会使这些天赋变粗或退化，你就永远不会致富。（因为在这种情况下，你的恐惧是有充分理由的。）
My problem is how all of this degrades our appetite to keep asking what it could all mean.
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