v. 衰退, 堕落, 退化( degenerate的过去式和过去分词 )
imp. & p. p. of Degenerate

degenerate的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. Watching TV too much would degenerate your brain.多看电视会使你的头脑退化。
  2. His health is degenerating rapidly.他的健康状况迅速恶化。
  3. Will too much freedom make them degenerate?太多的自由会令他们堕落吗?
  4. He didn't let riches and luxury make him degenerate.他不因财富和奢华而自甘堕落。
  5. Liberty is apt to degenerate into lawlessness.自由容易沦为无法无天。
用作形容词(adj.)
  1. The thief was a degenerate member of a fine family.那小偷是优秀家族的堕落的成员。
  2. The newly emerging forces are bound to defeat what is corrupt and degenerate.新生力量必然战胜腐朽力量。
  3. Cheap unsatisfying pleasures are made all in all in this degenerate age.无价值而不能使人满足的享乐在这败坏的世代被认为是头等重要的事。
用作名词(n.)
  1. This degenerate seduced my daughter!这个道德败坏的人勾引我的女儿!

常见句型

用作动词(v.)
用作不及物动词S+~(+A)
  1. His health degenerated with disease and old age.他的健康随着疾病和年老而衰退。
  2. He denied that some young people today were degenerating.他否认现在某些青年在堕落。
用作形容词(adj.)
用作定语~+ n.
  1. Just what do you mean by “degenerate art”?你说“颓废艺术”是指什么?
用作宾语补足语S+V++O+~
  1. Will too much freedom make them degenerate?太多的自由会令他们堕落吗?

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
degenerate into〔to〕 (v.+prep.)
    堕落为…,降格为… become lowered, morally or in quality to sthdegenerate into〔to〕 sth

    The conversation degenerated to a personal attack.

    谈话变成了人身攻击。

    The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.

    铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)
~+副词
  • degenerate rapidly迅速恶化
~+介词
  • degenerate from...into...从…变质为…
  • degenerate into〔to〕退化为…,堕落为…
用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
  • degenerate age堕落的时代
  • degenerate society堕落的社会
  • degenerate species退化的物种

经典引文

  • The degenerate representatives of a once noble institution.

    出自:J. A. Froude
  • A..yellow, vulpine bitchsa degenerate descendant of the Saluki family.

    出自:J. Raban
  • When men degenerate, and by sinne put off the nature of man.

    出自:T. Taylor
  • We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

    出自:J. K. Jerome
  • A complicated metaphysical digression that began badly and degenerated towards the end.

    出自:H. G. Wells
  • A road which degenerated into a farm track.

    出自:I. Murdoch
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