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

• 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。
• 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。
• The land environment degenerates;
  土地环境退化；
• 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。
• A plan is nothing, unless it degenerates into work!
  计划是什么，除非它迟早会成为工作！
• 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。
• 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。
• Reflectivity Displacement Method ( RDM) is a classical algorithm of Synthetic Aperture Radar ( SAR) autofocus processing, whose performance degenerates with low contrast of the scene.
  反射率偏移法（RDM）是合成孔径雷达（SAR）自聚焦的经典算法，当场景对比度较低时，RDM自聚焦效果变差。
• I apologize for saying your parents were degenerates.
  我说你父母堕落，我向你道歉。