柯林斯詞典degrade /d??ɡre?d/ (degrading,degraded,degrades) 1. V-T Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them. 使貶低身份; 使有辱人格 ...the notion that pornography degrades women. …色情作品貶低婦女的這種看法。2. degradingADJ 貶低身份的; 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脫衣搜身。3. V-T To degrade something means to cause it to get worse. 使惡化[正式] ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment. …滿足人類無限需求但又不會使環(huán)境惡化的能力。 返回 degrade劍橋詞典 degrade verb (LOSE RESPECT) [ 及物動詞:后面接賓語的動詞 ] to cause people to feel that they or other people have no value and do not have the respect or good opinion of others 貶低;降低…的身份;侮辱…的人格 Pornography degrades women. 色情作品是對女性的侮辱。 degrade verb (SPOIL) [ 及物動詞:后面接賓語的動詞 ] to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something 玷污;損害,危害 Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes . 環(huán)境日益受到有毒廢物的危害。 [ 不及物動詞:后面不接賓語的動詞 or 及物動詞:后面接賓語的動詞 ] electronics specialized If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct . (使)(無線電信號、靈敏度等)降低 degrade verb (CHANGE STRUCTURE) [ 不及物動詞:后面不接賓語的動詞 ] chemistry specialized (of a substance ) to change into a more simple chemical structure 降解,自然分解 These chemicals quickly degrade into harmless compounds . 這些化學(xué)制品能很快降解為無害化合物。 也見 biodegrade 返回 degrade