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

• 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。
• I apologize for saying your parents were degenerates.
  我说你父母堕落，我向你道歉。
• 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。
• They're just moral degenerates with no sense of decency.
  他们只是些不识廉耻的道德败坏者。
• The addition of three sinewaves results in a composite wave. The nonlinear wave shape degenerates to a sinusoidal wave.
  增加三个正弦波可形成一个复合波。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates.
  在我看来，强迫的专制制度很快就会腐朽衰退。