| 单词 | degenerate |
| 释义 | de·gen·er·ate I. 1. a. (1) < just as the last degenerate member of a noble family may be unattractive and uninspiring — W.E.Swinton > (2) < the Mayas were degenerate but they were stubborn — Time > b. < Savonarola's ecclesiastical superior officer … was a monster of perfidy and immorality; and a despairing and degenerate world had sunk into servitude beneath him — W.L.Sullivan > < the modern and degenerate society, which had rejected the governance of religion — J.C.Ransom > c. < the studies of notorious degenerate families prove nothing very significant about the inheritance of degeneracy — R.M.Lindner > < preferred to prop up an effete and degenerate dynasty rather than face a vigorous reformed China — G.F.Hudson > < the profession of painting … has esthetically, morally, and in certain quarters even politically become a thoroughly degenerate one — Huntington Hartford > d. 2. < the great wrought nails binding the clapboards are unknown in these degenerate days — Herman Melville > 3. 4. of a gas Synonyms: see vicious II. intransitive verb 1. obsolete a. b. 2. a. < the road … degenerated to little more than a goat track — Michael Swan > < its fine houses one by one degenerating into rooming houses — Marcia Davenport > < her fixed mysterious smile degenerated into a fatuous stare — J.C.Powys > b. < unfortunately, in practice, rotation in office degenerated into the spoils system — E.M.Eriksson > < debate was degenerating into partisan squabbling > < lest this international crisis degenerate into world war > c. < the phrase which they have reiterated ad nauseam has degenerated into a ponderous platitude — W.F.Hambly > < has not lost its dignity or degenerated into mere prettiness — O. Elfrida Saunders > < religion is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life — A.N.Whitehead > 3. < mentally and physically the Indians degenerated with the taking on of the white men's vices — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < of heroic stature but ultimately degenerating into a typical medieval dictator — R.A.Hall b.1911 > 4. < dinosaurs degenerated and disappeared > < mallards are prone anyway to degenerate into the barnyard type — W.L.McAtee > < all through the evolution of life many forms have degenerated, losing their relative autonomy and becoming dependent parasites upon other creatures — Curt Stern > 5. < denunciation of the rampant charlatanism into which the surrealist movement has apparently degenerated — Bernard Smith > < their metaphor degenerates into a series of isolated and barren conceits — C.D.Lewis > 6. biology transitive verb < the Etruscans were receptive to new ideas and applied them with energy, usually only to degenerate them in the end — A.L.Kroeber > III. a. < they had rotted in the last two centuries into mere drunkards and dandy degenerates — G.K.Chesterton > < degenerates are usually about the same type as psychopathics, namely, individuals who intellectually and especially affectively react differently from the average — A.A.Brill > b. < he has an urge to kill and destroy women … he may be considered a sexual psychopath and degenerate — Fred Galvin > c. d. < it is possible that some of these are cultural degenerates; most ethnologists, however, prefer to regard the majority as culturally retarded — R.W.Murray > IV. 1. < the graph of a second degree equation yielding two intersecting lines is a degenerate hyperbola > 2. a. < degenerate orbital > < degenerate oscillation > b. of a semiconductor 3. 4. < a degenerate star > |
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