degrades

英 [dɪˈɡreɪdz]

美 [dɪˈɡreɪdz]

v.  降低…身份; 侮辱…的人格; 使受屈辱; (使)退化，降解; 分解; 降低，削弱(尤指质量)
degrade的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
  Something thatdegradessomeone causes people to have less respect for them.
  1. ...the notion that pornography degrades women...
     认为色情作品有辱女性尊严的观念
  2. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
     我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。
• VERB 使恶化;使退化
  Todegradesomething means to cause it to get worse.
  1. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
     无限制地满足人类需求而不造成环境退化的能力
• V-ERG （使）降解
  In science, if a substancedegradesor if somethingdegradesit, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.
  1. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
     这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
  2. ...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose.
     这些酶降解纤维素的能力

双语例句

• Executives said the app-store model degrades the quality of games and isn't sustainable.
  高管们指责苹果商店模式会降低游戏的质量，并且不是可持续的。
• In cases where the document is very large, DOM becomes quite memory intensive and performance degrades substantially.
  如果文档非常大，DOM就会变得对内存非常敏感，并会显著降低性能。
• Performance for deleting items degrades significantly when a list becomes very large.
  当列表变得非常大时，删除项目时的性能降低得很多。
• With the oxygen increase in the roasting atmosphere, the product quality degrades because of oxidation.
  随着焙烧气氛中氧含量的增加，焙烧产品将因氧化而导致质量逐渐变差。
• At a certain number of connections, database performance degrades.
  当连接数达到某一值后，数据库性能将开始下滑。
• There might come a time when an additional CPU offers no increase in performance, or even degrades performance.
  可能新增的一个附加的CPU并没有使性能增加，甚至降低了性能。
• It degrades gracefully to every single device, even the cheapest devices.
  它几乎完美地适用于各种设备，即使是最便宜的设备也是如此。
• This makes DB2 queries use table scans instead of index scans and degrades database performance.
  这使得DB2查询使用表扫描代替索引扫描，并降低了数据库的性能。
• However, it makes the laser operate with high-order modes and the beam quality degrades at the same time.
  采用光纤拉锥的方法，对大模场面积光纤激光器的输出模式进行了控制。
• Adding more colors still improves user performance, but at seven or more, search performance degrades significantly.
  但在增加至7种或者更多种颜色时，搜索功能显著退化。