If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
例句
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。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。
ADJ-GRADED
堕落的;腐化的
If you describe a person or their behaviour as degenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality.
例句
...a group of degenerate computer hackers.一群堕落的计算机黑客...the degenerate attitudes he found among some of his fellow officers.他在一些警队同僚身上发现的腐化态度
N-COUNT
堕落的人;腐化的人
If you refer to someone as a degenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality.
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
2. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
3. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form