deteriorating v. 退化,恶化(deteriorate的ing形式)
- The upgrowth enTironment of animals keeps going deteriorating.
动物生长的自然环境一直在恶化。 - Consumption, on one level, is turning insipid, especially as the quality of the goods seems to be deteriorating.
在一个水准上人消费正变得缺乏吸引力,特别是商品的质量似乎一直在降低。 - Millions of home foreclosures combined with a continuing credit squeeze and a deteriorating economy have led to a glut of unsold houses on the market.
数百万幢住房被银行收回、信贷继续紧缩再加上恶化的经济状况导致市场上充斥着大量的未售出房屋。
Deteriorate \De*te"ri*o*rate\ (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]t),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deteriorated}
(d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Deteriorating} (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L.
deterioratus, p. p. of deteriorare to deteriorate, fr.
deterior worse, prob. a comparative fr. de down, away.]
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to
impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. --Whately.
The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated.
--Southey.
deteriorating \deteriorating\ adj.
going from better to worse.
Syn: declining, failing, regressing, retrograde,
retrogressive.
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