degradation

noun

/ˌdeɡrəˈdeɪʃn/

[uncountable]

a situation in which somebody has lost all self-respect and the respect of other people堕落；落魄，潦倒（的境况）
- the degradation of being sent to prison被关进监狱的落魄境况
(specialist) the process of something being damaged or made worse毁坏，恶化（过程）
- environmental degradation环境恶化

词源mid 16th cent. (in the sense deposition from an office or rank as a punishment): from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin degradatio(n-), from the verb degradare, from de- ‘down, away from’ + Latin gradus ‘step or grade’.

词汇	degradation
释义	degradation noun /ˌdeɡrəˈdeɪʃn/ /ˌdeɡrəˈdeɪʃn/ [uncountable] a situation in which somebody has lost all self-respect and the respect of other people堕落；落魄，潦倒（的境况） the degradation of being sent to prison被关进监狱的落魄境况 (specialist) the process of something being damaged or made worse毁坏，恶化（过程） environmental degradation环境恶化词源mid 16th cent. (in the sense deposition from an office or rank as a punishment): from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin degradatio(n-), from the verb degradare, from de- ‘down, away from’ + Latin gradus ‘step or grade’.
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