| 单词 | degradation |
| 释义 | degradation (degrədeɪʃən ) Word forms: degradations 1. variable noun You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality. [disapproval] They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found. She described the degradations she had been forced to suffer. 2. uncountable noun Degradation is the process of something becoming worse or weaker, or being made worse or weaker. I feel this signals the degradation of American culture. 3. uncountable noun The degradation of land or of the environment is the process of its becoming damaged and poorer, for example because of the effects of pollution, industry, and modern agricultural methods. [technical] There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones. ...the accelerating degradation of our planet's natural environment. 4. uncountable noun [usually with poss] In science, the degradation of a substance is the process of its breaking down into its separate parts or elements. [technical] ...the degradation of salicylic acid in plants. Synonyms: breakdown Collocations: ecological degradation Studies find that modern factors like climate change, ecological degradation and population pressures may make it more likely that viruses jump from animals to humans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The production of fish steadily declined during the 1980s due to over fishing and ecological degradation, but started increasing by the mid-1990s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Humane education examines the challenges facing the planet, including human oppression and animal exploitation as well as materialism and ecological degradation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Contemporary reports have noted the contribution of sandstone quarrying to ecological degradation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They blame ecological degradation on the inclination to short-term, profit-inspired decisions inherent within a market system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The residents and tribal members are now the first federally-funded community to be moved because of environmental degradation and displacement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even then he was dismayed by environmental degradation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He writes that environmental degradation causes poverty and migration, but people fleeing poverty are unprotected under international law. Times, Sunday Times Green campaigners are rightly concerned with environmental degradation. Times, Sunday Times They are the scourge of the green lobby, held up for years as a key cause of environmental degradation. Times, Sunday Times Far from displaying compassion, this traps people not only in permanent poverty but in social, cultural and moral degradation. Times, Sunday Times Journalists talked of the ignorance and moral degradation of the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That only thing it could do was to corrupt the reader and cause moral degradation in them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He reflected long on the moral degradation of human nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was also worried about their moral degradation because of polygamy and witchcraft. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this work, we have modeled and analyzed the dynamics of multisite-phosphorylation-triggered protein degradation systematically. 2010, 'Multisite Phosphorylation Provides an Effective and Flexible Mechanism for Switch-Like Protein Degradation', PLoS ONE Autogenous proteolytic enzymes of the calpain family are implicated in myofibrillar protein degradation. 2018, 'Association of μ-Calpain and Calpastatin Polymorphisms with Meat Tenderness in a Brahman–Angus Population', Frontiers in Genetics To improve our understanding, we need a strategy to analyze protein degradation and metabolism at subfreezing temperatures. 2017, 'Rigid geometry solves “curse of dimensionality” effects in clustering methods: An application to omics data', PLOS ONE Do we really want to rule out a technology that could help to preserve forests and biodiversity, and reduce nitrate pollution and soil degradation? Times, Sunday Times Water pollution, air pollution, and soil degradation pose enormous threat to ecosystems and human health. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soil degradation may also be viewed as any change or disturbance to the soil perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Practicing this style of intensive agriculture with short periods of soil rest leads to soil degradation and desertification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rice yields are about 2.8 tons per hectare, about half that in most countries, with soil degradation, lack of fertilizers, and limited mechanization blamed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 堕落 Japanese: 退廃 |
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