| 词汇 | degradation |
| 释义 | degradation noun[ U ] uk /ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/ degradationnoun[U] (DESTRUCTION)the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled: 玷污；损害，危害 environmental degradation环境恶化 Deteriorating and making worse add admin aggravate backslide be downhillidiom debase deterioration devaluation devalue disintegrate dog downgrade regress regression regressive regressively retrograde wear thinidiom worse worsen You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Damaging and spoiling degradationnoun[U] (LOSS OF RESPECT)formal the situation in which people are made to feel they have no value: 落魄，降低身份;丢脸 the misery and degradation of prison life监狱生活的艰辛和屈辱 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse exhibition ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something degradation | American Dictionarydegradation noun[ U ] us/ˌdeɡ·rəˈdeɪ·ʃən/ the process by which something is made worse, esp. the quality of land: One of the effects of environmental degradation is the absence of fish in that river. Examples of degradationdegradation The normal states correspond with, among other things, to the functioning modes and the abnormal states with the possible system degradations. Here time discipline is put to the service not of virtuous self-culture, but the opposite, the degradation of the operatives as moral beings. At the inter-state level, the environmental degradation of one country could easily affect the environments of neighboring states. Furthermore, the removal of a binomially distributed number of molecules can (in this case) be seen as independent degradation. To our knowledge, this was the first analysis of the drastic mesoscopic consequences of intracellular zero-order degradation. Though this may have certain advantages, it is unclear whether such a change is to be considered an improvement or a degradation of cost-effectiveness analysis. Lipoxygenases may also contribute to cell elongation or degradation by modifying cell membrane phospholipid composition. Multiple proteases may also be involved in the degradation of the many protein precursors found in the developing seed. Intracellular degradation was advanced in both the epidermal cells (illustrated) and in the underlying mesophyll. At the cotyledonary level, advanced degradation was observed on the surface as well as internally. An alternative explanation is that endosperm softening requires more than mannan degradation. The tomato seeds induced to germinate release soluble sugars into the incubation medium, including a significant amount of mannose, which indicates active polysaccharide degradation. The ribonucleotides survived in vivo for 6-8 h only before degradation. Money is the informants' only absolution (and this is the measure of their degradation). Responses of an avian community to rain forest degradation. See all examples of degradation 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. Collocations withdegradationdegradationThese are words often used in combination with degradation. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. chemical degradation Nonradioactive automated sequencing of oligonucleotides by chemical degradation. degradation product Histatin 2 is a degradationproduct of histatin 1, and all other histatins are degradation products of histatin 3. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. ecological degradation Its appearance has changed dramatically over the past 200 years due to anthropogenic influences resulting in ecologicaldegradation. 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. See all collocations with degradation |
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