Degradation
[,degrə'deɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɛɡrə'deʃən]
解释:
(n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
(n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
(n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
(n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
(n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
(n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
贝丽尔整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Dishonor, disgrace, humiliation.[2]. Deterioration, abasement, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, decline, vitiation, perversion.[3]. (Geol.) Wearing away (of rocks, &c.).
手打:罗谢尔
同义词及反义词：
[See DEBASE]
阿加莎手打
娱乐性解释：
n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
西莉亚手打
例句:
- The livery of his degradation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- 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.
- Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I would have spared you the degradation, but we must hear them from your own lips before we part, and you know why. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- They fell into deeper shame and degradation--if there can be deeper--and ruin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Yet a feeling of awe, a breathless sentiment of wonder, a painful sense of the degradation of humanity, was introduced into every heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mindand it must be saving her from the danger of degradation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Hence the degradation which the Colonel had almost suffered, of being obliged to enter the presence of his Sovereign in a hack cab. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It would be a degradation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the price of silver. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It was only when they had taught me at the reformatory to feel my own degradation, and to try for better things, that the days grew long and weary. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- No gentleman, nor even any burgher, who has stock, will submit to this degradation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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