degenerating

英 [dɪˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ]

v.  恶化; 蜕变; 衰退
degenerate的现在分词

现在分词：degenerating　

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

• Are the young people of today degenerating?
  现在的青年在堕落吗？
• Once again, UNCLOS is the common power that is supposed to prevent these disputes degenerating into an Arctic melee.
  《联合国海洋法公约》将再一次作为公平的力量，用以阻止这些争议升级为北极圈内的混战。
• Besides all this, there is another degenerating factor: effort, in all its subtle forms.
  除了所有这些，还有另一个恶化的因素：各种微妙方式的努力。
• Educational standards are degenerating year by year because of a lack of funds.
  由于缺乏资金，教育水准在一年一年地下降。
• The process or condition of worsening or degenerating. Bad company may corrupt a good boy.
  恶化，变坏恶化或变坏的状况或过程跟坏人在一起会使好孩子变坏。
• As the states weigh the merits of Mr Howard's scheme, the river is degenerating further.
  当各州权衡霍华德计划的利弊之时，河流的情况却在进一步恶化。
• By transplanting the cells into degenerating retinas, which normally lack this electrical activity in response to light, we could actually record ganglion cell activity.
  通过将细胞移植到在正常情况下不会出现电活动的变性视网膜下，我们最终观察到了神经节细胞的电活动。
• We will be in close connection with the two historic objectives of being capable of winning battles and never degenerating.
  紧紧围绕打得赢、不变质两个历史性课题。
• The team went on to transplant a layer of stem cells between the degenerating mice retinas and healthy donor tissue ( whole retina).
  研究小组继续在变性的小鼠视网膜和健康供体组织（整个视网膜）之间移植一层干细胞。
• Such a society, from the perspective of evolution, is a society where the vitality and diversity are abating, thus is a degenerating society.
  从演化的角度讲，这样的社会是一个多样性和活力都在减退的社会，是一个退化的社会。