degrade

英 [dɪ'ɡreɪd] 美 [dɪ'ɡreɪd]

• v. 降格；使屈辱；贬低；退化；降解

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使降级,使降低身份

   bring down in the opinion of others, in self-respect, in personal quality

2. vt. 使丢脸

   bring down in behaviour

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 使受屈辱，使丢脸，侮辱…的人格
2. 使降级，降低...的地位，降低...的品格，降低…身分
3. 降格，降级，降低品格
4. 撤职，免职
5. 【化】使降解；降解，分解
6. 【地】使陵削；剥蚀
7. 使堕落，使腐贬，使败坏
8. 把名誉学位考试延期一年
9. 【生】（使）退化
10. 降低，下降
11. 削弱

n. 名词

1. 一块有缺陷的木料

英英释义

Verb:

1. reduce the level of land, as by erosion

2. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;

   "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"
   "His critics took him down after the lecture"
   

3. lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. You should not degrade yourself by telling such a lie.
   你不该说那样的谎话降低自己的人格。
2. I felt degraded by having to ask for money.
   不得不向别人要钱,我感到有失尊严。
3. No one can degrade us except ourselves.
   除了我们自己，没有人能贬低我们。
4. For some reason our balancing reflexes degrade with age.
   我们的平衡反射，由于某种原因，随着年龄的增长而退化。
5. They degrade into carbon and oxygen.
   他们能被降解成碳和氧。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. A dishonest action like that will degrade you.
   像这样不诚实的行为会使你降低身份。
2. Do you think it degrades a woman to marry a man, not because she loves him, but because he is rich?
   一个女人嫁给一个男人,不是因为爱他,而是因为他有钱。你觉得她是堕落吗?
3. Don't degrade yourself by answering him.
   不要贬低身份去答理他。
4. He felt they were degrading him by making him wash the dishes.
   他感到他们叫他洗盘子是在侮辱他。
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5. He was degraded from the class.
   他被降级了。
6. Dreyfus is degraded before the Army on January 5,1895.
   德赖弗斯于1895年1月5日在全军面前被革职。

经典引文

• A priest could not be degraded but by eight bishops.

  出自： J. Priestley

• The man..was degraded from his high estate.

  出自： J. H. Newman

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

degrade for (v.+prep.)

由于…而降级 reduce to a low rank for
degrade sb for sth/v-ing
The major was degraded for disobeying orders.

这个少校因不服从命令而被降级。
He was degraded for being drunk and disorderly.

他因酗酒和妨碍治安而受到降级处分。
He was degraded from office, rank for his dereliction of duty.

他因渎职而被降级。

degrade to〔into〕 (v.+prep.)

使(某人)降级为〔沦为〕 make (sb) bring down in personal quality
degrade sb to〔into〕 sb
His dishonest action degraded him into a loner.

他因行为不轨以致没人愿与他来往。
This degraded him into a beggar.

这使他沦为乞丐。
He was degraded to a mere member.

他被降为仅是会员而已。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• degrade oneself 贬低自己的身份

～+副词

• degrade absolutely〔deeply〕 非常丢脸
• degrade hopelessly 无望地降级
• degrade materially 实际性地降级
• degrade shamefully 羞辱地降级

～+介词

• degrade sb by 认为…是贬低某人的行为
• degrade for 因…而降级
• degrade from public office 解除(某人)公职
• be degradeed into (某人)堕落成为
• degrade sb to a lower position 将某人降职

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. degrade的基本意思是“使降低身份”(grade的意思是“等级”,前缀de-表示“降低”)。可指一般地降低地位、级别; 也可指因犯错误(或真或假)而降级; 还可表示正式剥夺某资格(如人民代表)或革职。引申可指“使丢脸”。
2. degrade是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。
3. degrade接介词for可表示降级的原因; 接to则可表示“降至”。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

degrade, disgrace, humble

• 这组词都有“使丢脸”“使受耻辱”的意思。它们之间的区别是:
• 1.degrade多指因不道德的习惯或行为而丢脸; disgrace指因使人丢脸的、不光彩的行为而丢脸; humble仅指一种敬畏或卑微的心理状态。
• 2.degrade指人格受损; disgrace指丧失体面。试比较以下三个句子:
• I degraded myself by stealing.
• 我因偷窃而丢脸。
• The contestant did not disgrace her mother- land.
• 该选手没有给祖国丢脸。
• I can't see why I should humble myself before others.
• 我想不通为什么我在别人面前自卑。

近反义词

【近义词】

• reduce 减少
• shame 羞愧
• demote 降级
• downgrade 使降低
• lower 低的
• humiliate 使 ... 蒙羞
• debase 降低质量、地位或价值...
• abase 降低 ... 的地位...
• disgrace 耻辱
• demean 贬低
• cheapen 降低
• damage 损害
• destroy 破坏
• cut down 削减
• worsen (使)更坏
• mortify 使 ... 受辱
• dishonor 不名誉
• decay (使)衰退
• decompose 分解，拆分，拆解...
• disintegrate 瓦解
• break down 分解；发生故障；失败；毁...
• rot 腐烂
• depose 废黜
• deteriorate 恶化
• perish 毁灭
• impute 归罪于
• pervert 误用
• humble 谦逊的
• take down 记下，写下
• put down 镇压

【反义词】

• aggrade 加积(淤高)