| 正面 | 7721.deteriorate 英 [dɪ'tɪərɪəreɪt]美 [dɪ'tɪrɪəret]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. in, in- => interior.2. ex, ex- => exterior.3. de, de- => *deterior => deteriorate.vi. 恶化，变坏vt. 恶化 例句： 1. The position of the have-nots in our society could deteriorate even further.穷人的社会地位可能会进一步恶化。 deteriorate 恶化de-, 向下。-ter, 比较级后缀，见interior. 即使更下，恶化。 deterioratedeteriorate: [16] The meaning of deteriorate resides etymologically in its first syllable, which represents the Latin preposition dē ‘down’. To this was added the adjectival suffix -ter, to produce *dēter ‘bad’, and this in turn was modified with the comparative suffix -ior to dēterior ‘worse’. Dēterior formed the basis of the verb dēteriorāre ‘get worse’, source of English deteriorate.deteriorate (v.)1640s (as a past participle adjective, 1570s), from Late Latin deterioratus, past participle of deteriorare "get worse, make worse," from Latin deterior "worse, lower, inferior, meaner," contrastive of *deter "bad, lower," from PIE *de-tero-, from demonstrative stem *de- (see de). Originally transitive in English; intransitive sense is from 1758. Related: Deteriorated; deteriorating." |