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degradation

/deg-ruh-dey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛg rəˈdeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdɛɡrəˈdeɪʃən) //

退化,降解,降级,降落

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of degrading.
    • : the state of being degraded.
    • : Physical Geography. the wearing down of the land by the erosive action of water, wind, or ice.
    • : Chemistry. the breakdown of an organic compound.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile those excluded from the environmental movement are often the same people who face the greatest threats from climate change and have the most to lose from environmental degradation.

  • Hurricanes and floods, droughts and fires, environmental degradation, increased poverty and fierce global resource competition are just some of the likely potential harms.

  • These contributions will help offset some of the degradation of insect habitat.

  • They don’t want to show human brutishness and degradation in their museums.

  • However, despite this support, over the course of 2020 I experienced a material degradation of my overall mental health, which resulted in a period of hospitalization in August.

  • There are always examples of degradation, but there are very few examples of ecosystems left that are that pristine.

  • Digestion is a technical term which relates the mechanical, enzymatic, and chemical degradation of food.

  • “Since this past November, you have seen the slow and steady drumbeat of degradation,” Steele says.

  • And this of course raises the specter of Republican lies that make their own contribution to the degradation of public discourse.

  • So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag.

  • It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

  • But Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.

  • Come to our aid then; the morning of our Redemption from degradation, adorns the horizon.

  • Raise the mothers above the level of degradation, and the offspring is elevated with them.

  • He watches the budding of evil instincts, the ignoble habits idly acquired in degradation.