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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This easily degenerates into pessimism about future economic developments.
  这很容易滑向对未来经济发展的悲观主义。
• Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
  自由常常变质为无法无天。
• 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。
• 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。
• The shear strength degenerates under repeated loading.
  反复荷载作用下，接缝抗剪强度退化等。
• 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。