1. 使丟臉;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份 Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
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e.g. ...the notion that pornography degrades women... 認為色情作品有辱女性尊嚴的觀(guān)念 e.g. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that. 我問(wèn)他是否找過(guò)妓女時(shí),他說(shuō)他不會(huì )自貶身份去干那種事情。
degrading Mr Porter was subjected to a degrading strip-search. 波特先生被迫接受有辱人格的裸身搜查。
2. 使惡化;使退化 To degrade something means to cause it to get worse.
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e.g. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment. 無(wú)限制地滿(mǎn)足人類(lèi)需求而不造成環(huán)境退化的能力
3. (使)降解 In science, if a substance degrades or if something degrades it, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.
e.g. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil. 這種物質(zhì)在土壤里會(huì )迅速降解。 e.g. ...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose. 這些酶降解纖維素的能力
degrade英英釋義
verb
1. lower the grade of something reduce its worth
Synonym: cheapen
2. reduce the level of land, as by erosion
3. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
e.g. She tends to put down younger women colleagues His critics took him down after the lecture