decrepitude

英 [dɪˈkrepɪtjuːd]

美 [dɪˈkrepɪtuːd]

n.  衰老; 老朽; 破旧

BNC.38065 / COCA.33235

牛津词典

noun

• 衰老；老朽；破旧
  the state of being old and in poor condition or health

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 破旧;年久失修;衰老;老朽
  Decrepitudeis the state of being very old and in poor condition.
  1. The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.
     这座建筑看上去破旧失修，无人照管。

英英释义

noun

• a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
  Synonym:dilapidation

双语例句

• This touches a point independent of senile decrepitude: we are finite beings and even if our vital functions continued unimpaired, there are limits to what our brains can store and keep adding to.
  这揭示了一个完全不同于衰老的问题：就算我们的心脏能永远健康地跳动，我们的大脑却不可能不停地往里装东西。
• A ladies'man given to vigorous wall-shaking, the writer turns a blind eye to the hotel's decrepitude even as he keeps its female guests fixed in his sights.
  当他保存它的在他视力中被修理的女性客人的时候，摇动墙壁的精力充沛的淑女给男人，作家更甚至将一个盲目的眼睛转向旅馆的衰老。
• But excessive free radicals inside the human body can cause cell and organization organ hurt, result in various disease and accelerate body decrepitude.
  人体内过多的自由基，可导致细胞和组织器官损伤、诱发各种疾病、加速机体衰老。
• Traditional Chinese Medicine has abundant clinical experience and form theoretical system to postpone decrepitude, it emphasize that spleen is the root of after-birth and the source of qi and blood.
  中医学在延缓衰老的过程中，积累了丰富的临床经验，并形成了丰富的医学理论，中医学强调脾为后天之本、气血生化之源。
• When it was discovered that the knacker and tanner would give only a very few shillings for Prince's carcase because of his decrepitude, Durbeyfield rose to the occasion.
  德北菲尔德发现，由于王子衰老枯瘦，屠户和皮匠只愿出几个先令买下它的尸体，他就站起来处理这件事。
• Frequent exercising can defer the decrepitude.
  经常运动锻炼，可延缓衰老。
• The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
  青春的风采也仍在跟堕落与贫苦所招致的老丑作斗争。
• SOD is superoxide dismutase, it can clear away excessive O2 which is produced during the course of organism supersession, it can prevent disease and delay the decrepitude of human body.
  超氧化歧化酶（SOD）能清除机体代谢过程中产生的过多的氧自由基，可预防疾病和延缓人体衰老。
• There was a certain relativity between SOD activity, CAT activity and membrane leakage, MDA content, O2 ·-content, but the relativity of POD activity and the chayote fruits 'decrepitude was not obvious.
  SOD和CAT活性与细胞膜透性、MDA和O2.-含量表现出一定的相关性，而POD活性与佛手瓜成熟衰老相关性不明显。
• This is not an appealing prospect, and people naturally prefer to avoid the subject of their decrepitude.
  前景并不是那么吸引人，人们自然而然地避免谈及老年这个话题。