英 [dɪˈɡreɪdɪd] 美 [dɪˈɡreɪdɪd]
adj. 退化的；堕落的；被降级的
v. 分解（degrade 的过去分词）；降低……的身份；削减
degrade /dɪˈɡreɪd/ CET6 TEM8 [ degrading degraded degrades ]
及物动词 Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them. 使贬低身份; 使有辱人格
...the notion that pornography degrades women.
…色情作品贬低妇女的这种看法。
形容词 贬低身份的; 有辱人格的
Mr. Porter was subjected to a degrading strip search.
波特先生受到了有辱人格的脱衣搜身。
及物动词 To degrade something means to cause it to get worse. 使恶化
...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
…满足人类无限需求但又不会使环境恶化的能力。
unrestrained by convention or morality
deplorably dissipated and degraded
同义词： debauched / degenerate / dissipated / dissolute / libertine / profligate / riotous / fast
退化-引用次数：90
参考来源期刊学术社区
低级的
降级的
使降级
递降的
使(化合物，尤指碳水化合物)降解
(尤指碳水化合物)降解，分解
使陵弱，削减，使剥蚀，侵蚀(与aggrade相反)[参较aggrade]
使(能量)降级，使衰减；使弱化
... 2。 bewilder使迷惑 3。 degraded被降级的 4。 evoke引起，引发 ...
... incentive(金钱方面的)鼓励，刺激in+cent+ive，in+cent+give。给你钱，金钱方面的鼓励，刺激。 degraded低级的，品位低俗的 degrade tast品位低俗的 ...
... degradation1变质，退化2降级 degraded递降的 degradedband递降谱带 ...
... definitive#adj.确定的；最后的 degraded#adj.被贬低的；堕落的 delineation#n.记述；描写 ...
退化的；堕落的；[电子]被降级的
分解（degrade的过去分词）；降低…的身份；削减
This involves moving young coral from a healthy reef onto a degraded reef, in an attempt to regenerate the degraded reef by encouraging young healthy coral to take over.
这涉及到把年轻珊瑚从一个健康珊瑚礁移到一个退化的珊瑚礁上，通过促进年轻健康的珊瑚来接管，试图使退化的珊瑚礁再生。
The numerical effect is obvious: there are fewer salmon in degraded regions than in pristine ones; however, habitat loss also has the potential to reduce genetic diversity.
数值效应是明显的：退化地区的鲑鱼数量比原始地区少；然而，栖息地的丧失也有可能减少遗传多样性。
The Party is being degraded by its acceptance of secret donations.
该党因接受秘密捐款而遭贬低。
And Africa,where approximately depends on rainfall, is particularly vulnerable, Climate change can be reversed, in part,he says, through reforestation programs, better land management and the rehabilitation of degraded crop and pasture land.
VOA : standard.2010.03.29
"I think the priorities are totally skewed when people start looking at stormwater when in reality they need to be looking at what is the primary biggest culprit in what their receiving waters are being degraded by."
VOA : standard.2010.08.04
Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.
或如果我将他们,稍微错置于其它时间，他们是上层中产阶级的两名儿子,他们觉得,因为虚伪和伪善而降尊了,因那充斥着他们周围所见的世界。
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Consumers using rival Internet phone services could experience degraded phone quality, consumer groups worry.
Qaddafi was cut off from arms and cash, and his forces were steadily degraded.
Next to the park is a stretch of peat-swamp forest, mostly degraded but rich in carbon.