Degradation

(noun.) changing to a lower state (a less respected state).

乔琳整理

• The livery of his degradation! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I would have spared you the degradation, but we must hear them from your own lips before we part, and you know why. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They fell into deeper shame and degradation--if there can be deeper--and ruin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Yet a feeling of awe, a breathless sentiment of wonder, a painful sense of the degradation of humanity, was introduced into every heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mindand it must be saving her from the danger of degradation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Hence the degradation which the Colonel had almost suffered, of being obliged to enter the presence of his Sovereign in a hack cab. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It would be a degradation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the price of silver. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was only when they had taught me at the reformatory to feel my own degradation, and to try for better things, that the days grew long and weary. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• No gentleman, nor even any burgher, who has stock, will submit to this degradation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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