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

• His health degenerates rapidly.
  他的健康迅速恶化。
• When strength degenerates, reliability decreases with time more obviously, and the failure rate has the feature of a bathtub curve.
  强度退化时，可靠度随时间降低较为明显，失效率具有“浴盆”曲线的特征。
• The land environment degenerates;
  土地环境退化；
• The human stock goes on, even though it degenerates.
  虽然衰败了，但这样的家族还在延续。
• Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
  自由常常变质为无法无天。
• 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。
• At that time, there were no round-ups of degenerates, dissidents, and newspaper closures.
  在此期间没有闹事者，没有意见不和者，也没有报社关闭。
• The tracking performance of traditional optic-electric tracking systems degenerates significantly when there is a drop of detection probability with intermittent observation.
  随着不完全量测条件下探测概率的下降，传统光电跟踪系统的跟踪性能显著降低。
• 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。
• The prairie degenerates has become now the global important ecological environment question.
  草原退化已成为当今全球的重要生态环境问题。