| 词汇 | decaying |
| 释义 | decaying present participle ofdecay decay verb uk /dɪˈkeɪ/ us /dɪˈkeɪ/ B2[ I or T ] to become gradually damaged, worse, or less; to cause something to do this: 腐蚀;（使）衰败，（使）衰弱 Sugar makes your teeth decay.糖能引起蛀牙。 The role of the extended family has been decaying for some time.大家庭的作用开始减弱已经有一段时间了。 Pollution has decayed the surface of the stonework on the front of the cathedral.大教堂前部的石刻表面已经因为污染受到了侵蚀。 the smell of decaying meat腐肉气味 [ I ] physics specialized If a radioactive substance decays, it changes to a different form, producing radiation: （放射性物质）衰变 Radioactive uranium decays into stable lead at a known rate.放射性铀以已知的速率衰变为稳定的铅。 As the actinium-225 decays, it gives off short-lived, highly energized alpha particles. 随着锕-225的衰变，它会释放出寿命短、能量高的α粒子。 Floating in the dirty river were dead fish, already starting to decay. The bacteria live on food particles and produce acid that decays the enamel on your teeth. The flesh on a dead body decays very rapidly. It's sad to watch a beautiful rose wither and decay in such a short time. Plants and animals decay into the soil, replenishing the minerals and nutrients. Decaying and staying fresh best-before date biodegradable biodegrade compost decay decompose moulder mouldy nonperishable nutrient cycling out of date perish putrid rack rotten sell-by date shrivel shrivelled soft rot withered You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deteriorating and making worse Physical & chemical processes Physics: radiation & radioactivity Examples of decayingdecaying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The dispersion relation (4.4) admits both growing and decaying modes. Moreover, the decaying houses intimate the finite nature of our existence. It is noted that the decaying profiles remain nearly flat, as they would for an optically thin gas. The soil is continually moist and covered with a thick layer of leaves and decaying humus. Ideally there should be eight perceivable repetitions (decaying away) which would be an octave transposition (8 6 3/4 tone) in all. Regressing to models of decaying exponentials led to improved quality in the synthesis of several of the percussive tracks. Such regions and waves cannot exist in isotropic plasmas, where the wave is a superposition only of oscillating or of exponentially decaying partial waves. These solutions therefore describe an exponentially growing or decaying population with an age-size distribution that keeps a constant shape. At marginal instability, the real part of only one eigenvalue changes sign from negative (decaying disturbance) t o positive (growing disturbance). This means that compactly supported or quickly decaying kernels lead to uncoupled spatial variables at larger distances. Estimation of times from infection only involved the decaying phase of the response, where differences may have been least marked. Slug antigens were detectable in decaying slugs on both the soil and peat for remarkably long periods, with half-lives of 8.2 and 11.5 days respectively. Whether a building is a decaying shell, an undisturbed time capsule or a home to squatters, its contents are always surprising. Decaying wood is a sodium source for mountain gorillas. From these figures, and recalling that the amplitude is presented logarithmically, a decaying modulation of oscillationis noted. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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