degrade

英 [dɪˈɡreɪd]

美 [dɪˈɡreɪd]

v. 降低…身份; 侮辱…的人格; 使受屈辱; (使)退化，降解; 分解; 降低，削弱(尤指质量)

现在分词：degrading　过去分词：degraded　第三人称单数：degrades　过去式：degraded　复数：degrades　

Collins.1 / BNC.11309 / COCA.8440

牛津词典

verb

降低…身份；侮辱…的人格；使受屈辱
to show or treat sb in a way that makes them seem not worth any respect or not worth taking seriously
1. This poster is offensive and degrades women.
  这张海报冒失无礼，有辱女性尊严。
（使）退化，降解；分解
to change or make sth change to a simpler chemical form
降低，削弱（尤指质量）
to make sth become worse, especially in quality

VERB 使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
Something thatdegradessomeone causes people to have less respect for them.
1. ...the notion that pornography degrades women...
  认为色情作品有辱女性尊严的观念
2. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
  我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。
VERB 使恶化;使退化
Todegradesomething means to cause it to get worse.
1. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
  无限制地满足人类需求而不造成环境退化的能力
V-ERG （使）降解
In science, if a substancedegradesor if somethingdegradesit, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.
1. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
  这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
2. ...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose.
  这些酶降解纤维素的能力

verb

lower the grade of something
Synonym:cheapen
reduce the level of land, as by erosion
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
1. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
2. His critics took him down after the lecture
Synonym:take downdisgracedemeanput down

Degrade oneself by cheating and telling lies.
因欺骗和说谎而降低自己的身分。
This can be accomplished by giving the cells extra enzymes that can degrade the relevant material.
完成这项工作的办法，是给予细胞以能够降解相应物质的额外酶。
First, make it fresh. The acids in tomato juice can degrade the drinks other ingredients.
第一，保鲜，番茄汁中的酸能够降解酒中其他成分。
They degrade into carbon and oxygen.
他们能被降解成碳和氧。
Even if all this is done to the switch card, external connectors and cables can still degrade performance.
即使对开关卡采取所有这些措施，外部连接器和电缆还仍然会降低性能。
This means that no data is lost during compression, so the image does not degrade.
这意味着压缩过程中没有数据损失，因此图像质量不会下降。
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
我将不会允许任何人通过让我讨厌他来减少和降低我的激情。
As they degrade, the phosphates migrate into the soil.
它们在降解以后，磷酸盐会进入土壤。
Do you expect your method to degrade rapidly if more information is missing?
你是否预期如果更多的资讯遗失了，你的方法会很快的失去效果？
Such sweeps can degrade performance of the source, affecting other applications.
这种彻底搜索可能会降低数据源的性能，并影响到其他应用程序。