decay
美 [d??ke?] 
英 [d?'ke?]
- v.衰減；腐朽；衰敗
- n.腐爛；衰退；腐朽
- 網絡衰變；腐敗
詞形變化
第三人稱單數：decays 現在分詞：decaying 過去式：decayed 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 腐爛；腐朽the process or result of being destroyed by natural causes or by not being cared for (= of decaying) |
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| The landlord had let the building fall into decay . 房東任由房子變得破爛不堪。 |
| The smell of death and decay hung over the town. 城鎮上空彌漫著死亡和腐爛的氣味。 |
2. | （社會、機構、制度等的）衰敗，衰退，衰落the gradual destruction of a society, an institution, a system, etc. |
| economic/moral/urban decay 經濟衰退；道德敗壞；城市衰落 |
| the decay of the old industries 舊工業的衰敗 |
1. | [i][t] ~ (sth) （使）腐爛，腐朽to be destroyed gradually by natural processes; to destroy sth in this way |
| decaying leaves/teeth/food 爛葉；蛀齒；腐爛食物 |
2. | [i] （建筑、地方等）破敗，衰落，衰敗if a building or an areadecays , its condition slowly becomes worse |
| decaying inner city areas 衰敗中的內城區 |
3. | [i] （力量、影響等）衰弱，衰退，衰減to become less powerful and lose influence over people, society, etc. |
| decaying standards of morality 日趨低下的道德標準 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Giant detectors built to look for a hypothetical form of radioactivity in which protons decay never found such a thing.
為了探測質子衰變放射性的假想形式，人們修建了巨大的探測器，但這些探測器從沒發現這種東西。
It had been used for practical ends, to identify elements and to unravel radioactive decay chains.
已將其用于實踐的目的，去鑒別元素和闡明放射性衰變系。
The only thing that makes sense to me is to identify when a method is starting to decay and replace it with one that isn't.
對于我來說唯一有意義的事情是識別什么時候一個方法開始衰減，并用一個沒有衰減的方法替換它。
Rising crime is often cited as a prime example of mounting social decay .
犯罪的上升經常被當作越來越嚴重的社會倒退的主要例子。
The high aid new technology represents the present technical progress which can create remarkable economic efficiency, but easy to decay.
高新技術代表當今科技的最新進展，能創造出顯著的經濟效益，但也具有明顯的易逝性。
The wind was blowing the autumn decay around the forest, stirring up a symphony of sounds my attention drew increasingly closer to.
秋風吹過衰敗的樹林，仿佛一曲交響樂，越來越引起我的注意。
Exactly what has scientists so on edge is the fact that the natural rate of decay of atomic particles has always been predictable.
確切的說，令科學家們如此緊張不安的是，原子微粒的自然衰變率曾經一直是可預測的。
"Radiogenic decay is at a constant rate over the aeons, which can be measured by physically counting particles, " explained Bouvier.
Bouvier解釋說：“放射性衰減亙古恒定不變，由此其可以通過物理學的顆粒計數來測量。”
Others call it a shout-out to the man who studied microbial decay, brought you spoilage-resistant milk and found a vaccine for rabies.
還有人認為把這認為是巴斯德的一種留言或者是警示，而巴斯德研究微生物衰變，并為我們研究出了抗腐敗牛奶以及發現了狂犬疫苗。
Day continued to broadcast on the loss of human nature, moral decay is the thing it is often seen.
每天陸陸續續播報的關于人性缺失，道德淪喪的事情已經是屢見不鮮了。
Some of these particles are stable and form the normal matter, the others live for fractions of a second and then decay to the stable ones.
這些粒子中的一部分是穩定的并且構成了普通物質，其它的只存在一秒鐘的幾分之一，然后衰變為穩定粒子。
SK: Tell me more about this sense of death and decay I feel regarding the structures that I'm interacting with.
莎莉：請告訴我更多一些，在我正在與之交互作用的（矩陣）結構中，我感覺到的這種死亡和衰退的感覺。
The savage sun beat down like a drum, and a perverse part of me thought that it was a wonderful day to decay.
兇猛的烈日曬得我火辣辣，我異乎尋常地想到，今天真是個讓尸體腐爛的好日子。
Her mother was constantly imploring her not to allow herself to decay, as she had done.
她母親一再要求她別讓自己墮落，并以她本人為前車之鑒。
"There was active-enough chemistry in the sediments that the decay process didn't occur as quickly as the mineralization process, " he said.
“沉積物中有積極的，足夠的化學物質，（它的）衰變過程沒有同成礦過程一樣快，”他說。
The Higgs should occasionally decay into a pair of photons, which would produce a bump in the photon-pair energy distribution.
偶爾，玻色子會衰變為一對光子，光子糾纏對能量分布不均可能產生效應。
properties: absorbent, flexibility is good, comfortable, not easy corrugate, more wear-resisting, but easy to mildew easy to decay.
物理性能：吸濕性強、彈性好、手感舒適、不易起皺、較為耐磨、但易霉易蛀。
He was a throwback to the Victorian era when it was thought moral decay had to be combated by a regime of fitness for the mind and body.
他是維多利亞時代的一個大逆轉，那個時候普遍認為道德淪喪必須靠強健的身體素質和心理素質來改變。
None of the bodies discovered so far have been identified because they were in such an advanced state of decay.
至今沒有一具尸體被鑒別出來，因為他們已經高度腐爛。
This concern is still of the intellect and doesn't spring, does it, from a real concern at the decay of your feeling, which is part of you?
這種關注依然是智力上的，而不是源于對你衰退的感受的真正關心，而你的感受正是你的一部分，不是嗎？
Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating.
介殼與骨骼若落在海底，而不為沉淀物所掩蓋，也便腐爛而消滅。
He is not aiming to get the concrete facts of the rise and the decay of any particular city.
他不是著眼于某個特定城市興衰的具體事實。
The actual rate of decay may be somewhat greater or less than this expected rate.
衰變的實際速率可以比這個預期速率稍大些或稍小些。
It was feared that without some forms of Americanization immigrants would cause a rapid decay of American institutions.
人們擔心，沒有某種形式的美國化，移民將會導致美國制度的迅速解體。
Oil is formed by the decay of animal, and possibly some plant, remains in a reducing environment in sedimentary deposits.
石油是在沉積物還原環境中由動物遺骸，可能還有一些植物遺骸的分解所形成的。
Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay.
大多數的樹木都已腐爛不堪，一拉就碎，木屑四飛，還有紛揚的樹虱和爛物。
That university has fallen into decay in the last 100 years.
那所大學過去一百年來逐漸沒落了。
From their work emerged the picture of radioactive decay that is still valid-a violently disruptive explosion of a single atom.
根據他們的工作，展現出至今仍然成立的關于放射性衰變的圖象--單個原子的強烈的分裂性爆炸。
It is easy to show, for an exponential decay, that the uncertainty in the life time is also z.
很容易證明，對于指數衰減來說，壽命的不確定性也是z。
But this effect is balanced out by the anti-X particle, which tends to decay more often to "hidden" antiparticle pairs than to antineutrons.
但是這個現象被反”X“粒子抵消了：反”X“粒子更傾向于衰變為未知的兩種反粒子而不是反中子。
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives.
今天的伯帝保存了那種腐朽死寂的狀態，只有一小部分建筑還有人氣。
It will be a time of the sword, of warfare, not of peace, because there is so much corruption and decay.
將會有一段刀兵相見、戰火紛飛而不是和平的時期，因為存在著太多的腐朽和衰敗了。
These plastic items, as you all might be aware of, take tens and thousands of years to decay.
如眾所知，這些塑料制品于數十、數千年后才可能分解。
She also said that the experiment had another part, involving _two_ universes around the choice point of the time of decay of the atom.
她還說，這個實驗還有另外一個部分，是關于在原子衰變的剎那間的兩個宇宙。
if it has green plants materials added to it, helps to stop tooth decay .
如果添加了葉綠素就能夠防止蛀牙。
Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating.
介殼與骨骼若落在海底，而不為沉淀物所掩蓋，也便腐爛而消滅。
Check back in a few hours to compare the rate of decay and the resulting smells.
幾小時后，比較兩者的腐爛速度和氣味。
It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.
更深地說，這其實標志著自己道德本性的腐敗和消逝，是空虛，是掙扎以求生存的障礙。
It was like a journey through a very old painting, rich with grandeur and decay.
就像在一幅古老的圖畫里旅行，有一點輝煌，有一點朽敗。
The xylitol is proven to help fight decay, and I recommend sugar free gum with this ingredient to my adult patients.
木糖醇能夠有效防止蛀牙，我建議成人患者運用無糖成分的。
They also discovered that the more stressed parents are, the more likely their children were to have decay.
他們還發現父母的壓力越大，孩子越容易患齲齒。
The strength and decay rate of biodegradable fixation device can be monitored and improved by means of in vitro degradation tests.
目前可降解式固定器所面臨最大的難題在于強度的大小及降解時間的維持。
Transport of a two-member decay chain of radionuclides through a discrete fracture in a porous rock matrix in the presence of colloids.
放射性核素雙數衰變鏈通過膠體中多孔巖石基質不連續斷裂的輸運…[中國核科技信息與經濟研究院]。
As the attachment leaves, the pockets of decay and scar tissue can be transmuted upon a biological level within the form.
當連線離開時，衰退及傷疤組織的小塊可在身體內的生物體水平上變異。
Years ago, I noticed that if I go to bed without sex I begin to pick up some decay along the gum line.
很多年前，我就注意到如果我不做愛就睡覺的話，牙齦就會發炎潰爛。
Despite its decay, the Great Wall remains one of China's most popular tourist attractions and a true wonder of the world.
雖然狀況堪擾，長城仍然是中國吸引人的游覽勝地之一，也是一座真正的世界奇觀。
In the following century the power of the Ahoms began to decay, alike from internal dissensions and the pressure of outside invaders.
在接下來的世紀里，由于國內紛爭和外來入侵者的壓迫，阿霍姆人的力量開始衰退。
She will decay in her sheath, as a narcissus will, if you do not give her air enough.
她象一棵水仙花，如果你不給她足夠的空氣，她會在自己的緊身衣中腐爛。
Clean the teeth at least twice a day to avoid tooth decay (cavities) and to have nice breath.
每天兩次清潔牙齒，避免蛀牙（齲齒）。
