degenerate
degenerate 英 [dɪˈdʒenəreɪt] 美 [dɪ'dʒenəreɪt]
v. 恶化；退化 adj. 退化的；堕落的
进行时:degenerating 过去式:degenerated 过去分词:degenerated 第三人称单数:degenerates 名词复数:degenerates
- If something degenerates, it gets worse, like a food fight that degenerates to an all-out spaghetti-throwing war. Degenerate can also describe an immoral person — or the behavior of such a person.
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- v. 恶化；退化
- adj. 退化的；堕落的
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1. Her health degenerated quickly.
她的健康状况迅速恶化。
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2. The march degenerated into a riot.
示威游行变成了暴动。
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3. a degenerate popular culture
颓废的大众文化
- degenerate (adj.) late 15c., from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare "to be inferior to one's ancestors, to become unlike one's race or kind, fall from ancestral quality," used of physical as well as moral qualities, from phrase de genere, from de + genus (genitive generis) "birth, descent" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget"). The noun is from 1550s.
- degenerate (v.) 1540s, from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare "fall from ancestral quality" (see degenerate (adj.)). Figurative sense of "to fall off, decline" was in Latin. Related: Degenerated; degenerating.
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