词汇 | corrupt |
词源 | corrupt [ME] Corrupt comes from Latin corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ and rumpere ‘to break’. Also from rumpere are disrupt [LME] ‘break apart’; eruption [LME] a breaking out; interrupt [LME] ‘to break between’. See also rut. |
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