一、詳細(xì)釋義：

v.

降低，貶低 [I,T]

例句：

A dishonest action like that will degrade you.

像這樣不誠(chéng)實(shí)的行為會(huì)使你降低身份。

例句：

Don't degrade yourself by answering him.

不要貶低身份去答理他。

（使）降解 [I,T]

例句：

A unique two-stage process is being used to degrade PCBs in the river's sediments.

在河水沉積物中，降解PCBs是通過2個(gè)獨(dú)特的步驟進(jìn)行的。

例句：

The enzyme armoury is sufficient to degrade most proteins to small peptides and amino acids.

這一酶庫(kù)足以將大多數(shù)蛋白質(zhì)降解成短肽和氨基酸。

（使）退化 [I,T]

例句：

We need the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.

我們需要的是無限制地滿足人類需求而不造成環(huán)境退化的能力。

例句：

For some reason our balancing reflexes degrade with age.

我們的平衡反射，由于某種原因，隨著年齡的增長(zhǎng)而退化。

（使）降級(jí) [I,T]

例句：

He was degraded from the class.

他被降級(jí)了。

例句：

Dreyfus is degraded before the Army on January 5, 1895.

德賴弗斯于1895年1月5日在全軍面前被革職。

二、詞義辨析：

humble,humiliate,degrade,disgrace

這些動(dòng)詞均含有“使丟臉、使受恥辱”之意。 humble?？珊蚫egrade換用，強(qiáng)調(diào)降級(jí)所帶來的恥辱；也多指自卑和感到渺小無能的心理狀態(tài)。 humiliate指損傷或剝奪自尊感，損壞自尊心，強(qiáng)調(diào)蒙受恥辱。 degrade指因過失而受到降級(jí)、階格；也多指因自身的境遇而感到恥辱。 disgrace指降低某人在他人心目中的地位，使其丟臉。

三、參考例句：

Don't degrade yourself by answering him.

不要貶低身份去答理他。

You degrade yourself when you tell a lie.

說謊會(huì)貶低自己的身份.

She wouldn't degrade herself by asking for money.

她不會(huì)自貶身份去要錢。

A dishonest action like that will degrade you.

像這樣不誠(chéng)實(shí)的行為會(huì)使你降低身份。

For some reason our balancing reflexes degrade with age.

我們的平衡反射，由于某種原因，隨著年齡的增長(zhǎng)而退化。

As they degrade, the phosphates migrate into the soil.

它們?cè)诮到庖院?，磷酸鹽會(huì)進(jìn)入土壤。

Items will degrade with use and over time, requiring a craftsman to repair them.

物品在過度或者過時(shí)使用后會(huì)降級(jí)，這就需要工匠進(jìn)行修補(bǔ)。

The enzyme armoury is sufficient to degrade most proteins to small peptides and amino acids.

這一酶庫(kù)足以將大多數(shù)蛋白質(zhì)降解成短肽和氨基酸。

It would only destroy her happiness, and degrade her in the public estimation.

那只會(huì)破壞她的幸福，有損于她在社交界的聲望。

If you cheat at examinations and tell lies, you degrade yourself.

如果你考試作弊、說謊話，你就是自甘墮落。