记忆方法
记住“degenerate”可以通过联想其构成。将“de”看作是减少或向下，“generate”是产生的意思。想象原本正常的东西逐渐失去了原本的质量或功能，向下变得退化或恶化，从而记住“degenerate”表示退化、变质的意思。
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词族 · degenerate
中文词源
degenerate 堕落，恶化
de-, 向下，离开。-gen, 出生，词源同gene, generate. 原义为偏离祖训，有损祖先名声，后引申为堕落，恶化。
英语词源
- degenerate (adj.)
- late 15c., from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare "to be inferior to one's ancestors, to become unlike one's race or kind, fall from ancestral quality," used of physical as well as moral qualities, from phrase de genere, from de + genus (genitive generis) "birth, descent" (see genus). The noun is from 1550s.
- degenerate (v.)
- 1540s, from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare "fall from ancestral quality" (see degenerate (adj.)). Figurative sense of "to fall off, decline" was in Latin. Related: Degenerated; degenerating.
权威例句
- 1. Will too much freedom make them degenerate?
- 太多的自由会令他们堕落 吗 ?
- 2. The newly emerging forces are bound to defeat what is corrupt and degenerate.
- 新生力量必然战胜腐朽力量.
- 3. Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate.
- 长期不活动会导致关节僵硬，骨骼也可能开始退化。
- 4. From then on the whole tone of the campaign began to degenerate.
- 从那时起，整个活动的基调开始变质。
- 5. We must not allow our necessary scepticism to degenerate into cynicism.
- 我们不应让必要的怀疑态度滑向玩世不恭.