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

• 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。
• Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
  自由常常变质为无法无天。
• I apologize for saying your parents were degenerates.
  我说你父母堕落，我向你道歉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His health degenerates rapidly.
  他的健康迅速恶化。
• A plan is nothing, unless it degenerates into work!
  计划是什么，除非它迟早会成为工作！