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degeneracy

/dih-jen-er-uh-see/US // dɪˈdʒɛn ər ə si //UK // (dɪˈdʒɛnərəsɪ) //

退化,退化性,堕落,变质

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : degenerate state or character.
    • : the process of degenerating; decline.
    • : degenerate behavior, especially behavior considered sexually deviant.
    • : Physics. the number of distinct quantum states of a system that have a given energy.

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Examples

  • A few funny things happened this spring as the U.S. hurtled along the road to fiscal degeneracy.

  • My father is convinced that everything I wear is newly bought, another marker in my ongoing pattern of degeneracy.

  • Among High Churchmen, weakened by the secession, the growth of degeneracy was still more evident.

  • But in the course of time the Avesta was subjected to many additions and interpretations, called the Zend, which show degeneracy.

  • In spite of reforms by improved compositions and legislative measures the degeneracy of the Gilds proceeded apace.

  • It is by reason of the widely-reaching influence of their degeneracy that their later history is of importance.

  • Ignorance contributed to the rapid degeneracy of the people in the old home sections of New York.