Degenerate
[dɪ'dʒen(ə)rət] or [dɪ'dʒɛnəret]
解释:
(a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
(v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
(v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
埃尔罗伊校对
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Deteriorate, decline, decay, become worse, grow worse.
a. Inferior, mean, base, corrupt, fallen, degenerated.
科琳录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:deteriorate, grow_worse, retrograde
ANT:Recover, improve, {[Jiend]?}, advance
杰罗姆录入
解释:
adj. having departed from the high qualities of race or kind: become base—also Degen′erous (obs.).—v.i. to fall from a nobler state: to be or to grow worse.—v.i. Degen′der (Spens.) to degenerate.—ns. Degen′eracy Degenerā′tion the act or process of becoming degenerate: the state of being degenerate.—adv. Degen′erately.—n. Degen′erateness.—adj. Degen′erating.—n. Degenerā′tionist one who believes that the tendency of man is not to improve but to degenerate.—adj. Degen′erative tending or causing to degenerate.
安妮特手打
娱乐性解释:
adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at 'men who live in these degenerate days which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread—a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.
科迪莉亚整理
例句:
- Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Think on the freedom of England, degenerate Prince! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Then, under the influence either of poverty or of wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- But education is not a weed that will grow lustily in any soil, it is a necessary and delicate crop that may easily wilt and degenerate. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The deep bell of St Paul's was striking nine as he passed under the shadow of Temple Bar, headless and forlorn in these degenerate days. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In some it is more, in others it is less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But Genoa's greatness has degenerated into an unostentatious commerce in velvets and silver filagree-work. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Such shows were the best possible form of advertising, but in time they degenerated into absurd performances. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Their cultivation degenerated more and more into a growing of potatoes and a feeding of pigs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- My life was like that of an animal, and my mind was in danger of degenerating into that which informs brute nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Such a State is hardly to be realized in this world and quickly degenerates. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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