degenerates

英 [dɪˈdʒenəreɪts]

美 [dɪˈdʒenəreɪts]

v.  恶化; 蜕变; 衰退
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柯林斯词典

The verb is pronounced /dɪ'dʒenəreɪt/. The adjective and noun are pronounced /dɪ'dʒenərət/. 动词读作 /dɪ'dʒenəreɪt/。形容词和名词读作 /dɪ'dʒenərət/。


• VERB 恶化;变糟;衰退;堕落
  If you say that someone or somethingdegenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
  1. Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate...
     长期不活动会导致关节僵硬，骨骼也可能开始退化。
  2. From then on the whole tone of the campaign began to degenerate.
     从那时起，整个活动的基调开始变质。
  3. ...a very serious humanitarian crisis which could degenerate into a catastrophe.
     一场非常严重的、可能演变成灾难的人道主义危机
• ADJ-GRADED 堕落的;腐化的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asdegenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality.
  1. ...a group of degenerate computer hackers.
     一群堕落的计算机黑客
  2. ...the degenerate attitudes he found among some of his fellow officers.
     他在一些警队同僚身上发现的腐化态度
• 堕落的人;腐化的人
  If you refer to someone as adegenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality.

双语例句

• The land environment degenerates;
  土地环境退化；
• She degenerates into a mere slut!
  她退化成为一个懒婆娘了！
• It plays a major role in presidential elections, separates community groups, and sometimes even degenerates into violent acts.
  对此问题的看法成为分解点，影响着总统选举、社区选择、甚至引起暴力。
• The group has not appeared the Chinese soccer degenerates into the object which the media denounces in word and in writing.
  小组都没出现的中国足球沦为媒体口诛笔伐的对象。
• Compare and contrast with any large bank, where risk management too often degenerates into mere compliance.
  不妨将高盛与其它任何一家大型银行做一下对比。在那些大型银行，风险管理常常沦为纯粹的合规行为。
• Everything is perfect coming from the hands of the creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.
  从造物主手中创造出来的一切都是完美的，而人类只会使之堕落与退步。
• Middling or top grade grass degenerates to low grass mostly in each researching area.
  另，各个研究子区域的中草和高草也都较多的退化为低草。
• The intervertebral disc degenerates 'most early in the human tissues.
  椎间盘是人体组织中最早发生退行性改变的部位。
• Reflectivity Displacement Method ( RDM) is a classical algorithm of Synthetic Aperture Radar ( SAR) autofocus processing, whose performance degenerates with low contrast of the scene.
  反射率偏移法（RDM）是合成孔径雷达（SAR）自聚焦的经典算法，当场景对比度较低时，RDM自聚焦效果变差。
• His papers described them as marijuana-smoking, job-stealing, lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates.
  他的报纸把他们描绘成抽***、洋工、惰、恶和喜欢暴力的堕落者。