1·The main reason was that steel cables degrade very, very quickly in contact with saltwater.
主要原因是钢索与盐水接触后降解非常快。
2·Agrivida is working on plants that release enzymes to degrade the cellulose in their own cell walls - on command.
Agrivida公司正致力于令植株释放酶以降解自身细胞壁纤维素——利用指令。
3·Pops can cause cancers and birth defects and take a long time to degrade.
持久性有机污染物(Pops)会导致癌症和出生缺陷，而且降解速度非常缓慢。
4·Some of the items were found to be many decades old, suggesting that the plastic took a long time to degrade.
其中的一些东西已有数十年的历史，说明塑料需要很长的时间才能降解。
5·POPs do not degrade easily, but remain intact in the environment for long periods of time.
POP不易降解，可以长期完整地存在于环境中。
1·Certain irrigation practices degrade soil quality and reduce agricultural productivity.
某些灌溉措施会降低土壤质量，降低农业生产力。
2·This will degrade performance.
这样将降低性能。
3·Sugar can increase energy, but in very small amounts, sugar can tell your brain to degrade the performance of orexin.
糖分可以增加能量，但如果是很小剂量的糖分则会促使你的大脑降低食欲素的功能。
4·The performance team should benchmark each release and ensure that the performance of critical areas does not degrade from one release to the next.
性能团队应该对比每一个版本，以确保重要区域的性能在下一个版本中不会降低。
5·This will help to avoid the chance for resource contention that can severely degrade performance, or lead to a record dead lock condition.
这将有助于避免出现资源争用，资源争用可能会严重降低性能，或者会导致出现记录死锁情况。
1·This is consistent with research showing that when our self-esteem is threatened (like when we are told we are unattractive) we are more likely to degrade others.
与研究所显示的一致，当我们的自尊受到威胁（比如我们被告知自己没有吸引力），我们可能会去贬低其他人。
2·Why do you have to degrade me like this?
你为什么要这样贬低我？
3·Although high yourself, don't also degrade the others, attitude decides everything.
别看高了自己，也别贬低了别人，态度决定一切。
4·No one can degrade us except ourselves.
除了我们自己，没有人能贬低我们。
5·You degrade yourself when you tell a lie.
你撒谎时就贬低了自己。
1·Jays prefer crickets, but crickets degrade more quickly.
松鸡喜欢蟋蟀，但蟋蟀退化得更快。
2·But if silent genes degrade within 6 to 10 million years, how can long-lost traits be reactivated over longer timescales?
但是，如果沉默基因在600万到1000万年内退化，那么失去已久的性状如何在更长的时间内被重新激活呢？
3·We've been talking about the decline of coral reefs in tropical areas all over the world—how natural and man-made stresses are causing them to degrade or in some cases, to die.
我们之前提到了世界各地热带地区中珊瑚礁的衰落，即自然和人为（造成的）压力是怎样造成珊瑚礁退化，或者甚至在某些情况下，造成它们死亡的。
4·While the brain's plasticity begins to degrade in later life, it may never be too late to teach an old brain new tricks.
因为大脑的可塑性在生命晚期开始退化，所以什么时候教一个老人新技巧都不显得太晚。
5·My left eye though, it seems to continue to very slightly degrade. He wants me to try these new more powerful eye drops.
但是我的左眼看起来还是轻微的退化。他让我去试试这些新的更有作用的眼药水。
1·If this is done well, earlier versions of applications can even degrade relatively gracefully when they read newer saved documents — usually by just ignoring unfamiliar tags and attributes.
如果做得好，应用程序的早期版本在读取较新的保存文档时甚至可以相对温婉地降级使用——通常只需要忽略不能识别的标签和属性。
2·Increasing the level of logging will cause performance to degrade because of the additional I/O operations that need to be coordinated to write to the log files.
提高日志级别会导致性能降级，因为需要协调额外的 I/O 操作，以便将它们写入日志文件。
3·Items will degrade with use and over time, requiring a craftsman to repair them.
物品在过度或者过时使用后会降级，这就需要工匠进行修补。
4·The results show that the performance of RAID5 in the degrade mode is the bottleneck of the disk arrays.
计算结果分析表明，RAID5在降级模式下的性能将为整个阵列性能的瓶颈。
1·How quickly does working memory degrade?
工作记忆的消退有多快？