Pervert

(noun.) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.

(verb.) change the inherent purpose or function of something; 'Don't abuse the system'; 'The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers'.

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• Or rather, they are affected, but in such a way as to pervert them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To overlook this fact means to distort and pervert human nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When I am gone, they pervert--but they don't mean it--even Maggy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The sovereign himself can never have either interest or inclination to pervert the order of justice, or to oppress the great body of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mystery; Finessehow they pervert the understanding! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The prodigal perverts it in this manner: By not confining his expense within his income, he encroaches upon his capital. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The two factors of truth in the conception may easily be disentangled from association with the false context which perverts them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Jarndyce and Jarndyce has warped him out of himself and perverted me in his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The trust is not checked, but it is perverted. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They-all's a desecrating us, right here on this here perverted island. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I was much disconcerted, but I reflected that if the main point were gained, it mattered little how strangely he perverted everything leading to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr Rokesmith, it is to me you owe this perverted account of what passed between us that night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Nor was there anything perverted about it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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