vi.

1. 衰退；堕落；变坏[（+into）]
   Young people of today are not degenerating.

   今天的青年并没有在变坏。

2. 【生】退化

a.

1. 衰退的；堕落的
   He didn't let riches and luxury make him degenerate.

   他不因财富和奢华而自甘堕落。

2. 【生】退化的

n.

1. 堕落者；变态性欲者[C]

adj.

1. having lost the physical or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
   ▸Biology  having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a structure present in the ancestral form.
2. Physics  relating to or denoting a quantized energy level corresponding to more than one state.
   ▸denoting matter at such high density (e.g. in neutron stars) that quantum effects are dominant.

n.

v.