degrade

verb

1. 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。
2. （使）退化，降解；分解
   to change or make sth change to a simpler chemical form
3. 降低，削弱（尤指质量）
   to make sth become worse, especially in quality

1. VERB 使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
   Something that degrades someone 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。
2. VERB 使恶化;使退化
   To degrade something 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
3. V-ERG （使）降解
   In science, if a substance degrades or if something degrades it, 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

1. 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。
2. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
   这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
3. As they degrade, the phosphates migrate into the soil.
   它们在降解以后，磷酸盐会进入土壤。
4. A dishonest action like that will degrade you.
   像这样不诚实的行为会使你降低身份。
5. Continuous writing to a disk can largely degrade the performance of a program, causing it to run slowly.
   持续地对磁盘进行写入操作可能会极大地降低程序的性能，导致其运行速度缓慢。
6. Such leaks can degrade performance and eventually cause a program to crash.
   这样的泄漏会降低性能并最终导致程序当机。
7. Bad interface design, hardware limitations, and cross-system interaction can also degrade performance of the whole system.
   糟糕的接口设计、硬件限制和跨系统集成也会降低系统的整体性能。
8. This will degrade performance.
   这样将降低性能。
9. Blocking worker threads and poor service deployment and distribution can significantly degrade the performance of an overall middleware infrastructure.
   阻塞工作线程和不当的服务部署与分配可能会极大地降低中间件基础设施的总体性能。
10. Unfortunately, changing the apparent sector size in firmware can degrade performance.
    遗憾的是，在固件中改变表面扇区大小会降低性能。
11. As a result, performance can degrade as the decreased available heap memory leads to more frequent garbage collection.
    因此，随着可用堆内存的减少而导致更频繁的垃圾回收，性能可能会降低。
12. 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。
13. However, this will also degrade database performance.
    然而，这种方式也会降低数据库性能。
14. 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。
15. You degrade yourself when you tell a lie.
    你撒谎时就贬低了自己。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. The results indicate that ozone can degrade AFB_1 in cereal efficaciously.
    结果显示：臭氧能够有效的降解谷物中的AFB1。
19. In sound recording, interference, such as ambient noise and reverberation, degrade the quality.
    录音时，环境噪声和回响之类的干扰使录音质量劣化。
20. 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。
21. They degrade into carbon and oxygen.
    他们能被降解成碳和氧。
22. Designed to humiliate and degrade this country.
    为羞辱和贬低这个国家而设计。
23. Both myxoviruses and lysosomes are equipped with enzymes which can degrade glycoproteins.
    粘液病毒和溶解体均装配某些能分解糖蛋白的酶。
24. 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。
25. Degrade oneself by cheating and telling lies.
    因欺骗和说谎而降低自己的身分。
26. Similar to other metals, mercury does not degrade but instead accumulates in soil, water and living organisms.
    与其它金属类似，汞不会降解，反而会在土壤、水和活性生物体内蓄积。
27. A dominant bacterium which can effectively degrade abamectin was isolated from contaminated soil, and its degradation characteristics and mechanism was studied.
    摘要从污染土壤中分离到一株高效降解阿维菌素的菌株，初步研究了其降解特性和机理。
28. Ocean is a complicated and changeable channel which may distort the signals and degrade the performance of communication system.
    海洋是一个复杂多变的信道，它会使声信号产生畸变从而降低通信系统的工作性能。
29. Any rework or repair must not increase stress concentrations that degrade component durability.
    任何翻修或修理都不得增加应力集中而降低部件的耐久性。
30. 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？

verb

1. lower the grade of something

   Synonym:    cheapen

2. reduce the level of land, as by erosion

3. 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