perversion

1. N-VAR You can refer to a sexual desire or action that you consider to be abnormal and unacceptable as a perversion. 性變態(tài)[表不滿(mǎn)]

The book was the authority on sexual perversions. 這本書(shū)是關(guān)于性變態(tài)的權(quán)威著作。

2. N-VAR A perversion of something is a form of it that is bad or wrong, or the changing of it into this form. 歪曲[表不滿(mǎn)]

Critics say that the system is a dangerous perversion of democracy. 批評(píng)家們說(shuō)，這種體系是對(duì)民主的危險(xiǎn)的歪曲。