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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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大麻、洋工、惰、恶和喜欢暴力的堕落者。
• The shear strength degenerates under repeated loading.
  反复荷载作用下，接缝抗剪强度退化等。
• When the outer shell degenerates, it allows the central part of the disk to escape.
  当外层发生退行性病变，造成椎间盘中央部分的逸出。
• If an invaded root cell happens to be a normal diploid cell, it is usually destroyed by the infection and degenerates.
  如果被侵入的细胞碰巧是双倍体细胞的，它通常会被感染破坏而退化。
• For example, the widely use of air conditioning degenerates the idea of the using of air velocity.
  比如空调的广泛使用反而使充分利用空气流动降温的思想退化了。
• I apologize for saying your parents were degenerates.
  我说你父母堕落，我向你道歉。
• The secrets are shared with a polynomial which degenerates to a lower order polynomial for different thresholds.
  通过一个多项式共享秘密，该多项式在不同级门限中退化为不同的低阶多项式。