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这里为大家介绍下degrade 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ di"greid ]

中英文翻译

vt.

1.降格，降级。

2.撤职，免职。

3.降低品格[身价、价值(等)]；使堕落；使受屈辱。

4.【化学】降解。

5.【生物学】使退化。

6.【地质学；地理学】使剥蚀。

vi.

1.降低；堕落。

2.【生物学】退化。

3.(剑桥大学)把名誉学位考试延期一年。

lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

同义词：cheapen,

reduce the level of land, as by erosion

reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

同义词：take down, disgrace, demean, put down,

例句与用法

1.A knight may be degraded for treason .

一个爵士可以因叛逆罪被贬黜

2. "to degrade you?" said mr. creakle .

“寒碜你？”克里克先生说。

3.He was degraded in their eyes .

他在她们众目睽睽之下丢了丑。

4.Merriment is not a bad or degrading quality .

笑笑闹闹不是什么坏的或者卑鄙的品德。

5.The organophosphates degrade fairly rapidly in soil .

有机磷酸盐在土壤中降解十分迅速。

6.Somehow it seemed shabby and even degrading .

而且，这种作法总好象很寒怆，甚至可以说很丢脸。

7.It degrades to stoop--it is glorious to look up .

卑躬屈膝是卑鄙的，--敢于趾高气扬才是光荣。

8.Rise, and don"t degrade yourself into an abject reptile .

起来，可别把你自己贬成一个下贱的爬虫。

9.He felt it was a degrading job to wash dishes at a restaurant .

他认为在餐馆洗盘子是下贱的工作。

10.He was free from degrading fears and free from prejudice .

他从卑微的恐惧中，从偏见中解脱出来了。

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