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

1. 一块有缺陷的木料

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

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

1.使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
Something thatdegrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.

degrade在线翻译

e.g. ...the notion that pornography degrades women...
认为色情作品有辱女性尊严的观念
e.g. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn'tdegrade himself like that.
我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。

2.使恶化;使退化
Todegrade something means to cause it to get worse.

degrade

e.g. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
无限制地满足人类需求而不造成环境退化的能力

3.（使）降解
In science, if a substancedegrades or if somethingdegrades it, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.

e.g. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
e.g. ...the ability of these enzymes todegrade cellulose.
这些酶降解纤维素的能力

1. 降级：此书的作者,用通俗易懂的英文,循序渐进的方式将JavaScript DOM编程最清晰的表达给了读者,而最让我激动的是,他将如何使行为层与表现层、内容层实现完全分离的方式展现给了我们,而且还重点加强了Javascript降级(degrade)思想,Javascript应该是对文本内容的一个补充,

2. 降低：根据攻击对目标造成的破坏程度,攻击影响自低向高可以分为:无效(None)、服务降低(degrade)、可自恢复的服务破坏(Self-recoverable)、可人工恢复的服务破坏(Manu-recoverable)以及不可恢复的服务破坏(Non-recoverable).

3. degrade

3. 降解：随之这种微粒会降解(degrade)成对人体无害的副产物,并於5天内自人体安全地排出. 为了制作这种微粒,研究人员先让电流通过半导体业界使用的矽晶圆,在晶圆上形成奈米级孔洞,接著以超声波震碎布满孔洞的晶圆,

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。

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。

• 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

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”。

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。