degrades

英 [dɪˈɡreɪdz]

美 [dɪˈɡreɪdz]

v.  降低…身份; 侮辱…的人格; 使受屈辱; (使)退化，降解; 分解; 降低，削弱(尤指质量)
degrade的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
  Something thatdegradessomeone causes people to have less respect for them.
  1. ...the notion that pornography degrades women...
     认为色情作品有辱女性尊严的观念
  2. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
     我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。
• VERB 使恶化;使退化
  Todegradesomething means to cause it to get worse.
  1. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
     无限制地满足人类需求而不造成环境退化的能力
• V-ERG （使）降解
  In science, if a substancedegradesor if somethingdegradesit, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.
  1. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
     这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
  2. ...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose.
     这些酶降解纤维素的能力

双语例句

• In open addressing, performance degrades badly as the load factor increases above one half or two thirds.
  在开放地址法中，当装填因子超过二分之一或三分之二后，性能下降的很快。
• At a certain number of connections, database performance degrades.
  当连接数达到某一值后，数据库性能将开始下滑。
• This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
  这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
• Network overhead generated by Internet access degrades network behavior and it is pricey, too.
  因走访互联网而导致的网络负荷降低了网络性能，且费用昂贵。
• It degrades gracefully to every single device, even the cheapest devices.
  它几乎完美地适用于各种设备，即使是最便宜的设备也是如此。
• For example, signal-to-noise ( SNR) performance degrades as a result of reduced signal swing.
  例如，信噪比（NR）于信号摆幅的减少而降低。
• Executives said the app-store model degrades the quality of games and isn't sustainable.
  高管们指责苹果商店模式会降低游戏的质量，并且不是可持续的。
• The result showed that sea cucumber polypeptide has no obvious effect on body weight in mice, significantly prolongs the time of loaded-swimming and rolling stick, stringly degrades the content of blood urea nitrogen and increases the content of hepatic glycogen of postexercise mice.
  结果表明，低分子量海参肽对小鼠体重无显著影响，但能明显延长小鼠的负重游泳时间和转棒时间，显著降低运动后小鼠的血尿素氮含量，同时提高了肝糖原含量。
• Adding more colors still improves user performance, but at seven or more, search performance degrades significantly.
  但在增加至7种或者更多种颜色时，搜索功能显著退化。
• Contamination degrades the quality of products and even leads to failure.
  污染使产品的质量下降，甚至导致废品。