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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The shear strength degenerates under repeated loading.
  反复荷载作用下，接缝抗剪强度退化等。
• 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 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。