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

• 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。
• I'm sure a referee is within his rights to stop a game if he sees it degenerating into a rough house.
  我敢肯定，如果一个裁判看见一场比赛变成了粗暴的混战，他有权终止这场比赛。
• It is becoming more and more important in a world that is destructive and degenerating that there should be a place, an oasis, where one can learn a way of living that is whole, sane and intelligent.
  在这个具有破坏性和堕落的世界上，建设一个这样的场所、一个生命的绿洲人们可以在其中学习一种完整、健全和智慧的生活方式这显得越来越重要。
• 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。
• 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。
• Operators urgently needed to invest because "the quality of networks is degenerating almost everywhere, and particularly in western Europe".
  急需业者投资是因为“几乎每个地方的电信网络连通质量都在衰退，西欧尤其严重”。
• 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。
• Early division phase embryos may use metabolites provided by the suspensor, persistent and degenerating synergids.
  早期分裂时期的胚可以利用胚柄，宿存和退化中的助细胞所提供的代谢物。
• Old water pipes that are degenerating with age; a dispute that degenerated into a brawl.
  年久失修而逐渐失去功用的水管；发展成为争吵的辩论。