The report concluded that this described activity "constitutes torture" and that it also constitutes "cruel,inhumane and degrading treatment."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Dicer is an internal cellular mechanism for degrading RNA's.

icer是细胞降解RNA的内在机制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

As China's economy has grown 10-fold over the past 15 years, the country's environment has been degrading.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

And you could interfere with a translation by degrading messenger RNA, for example. If you had a way to specifically chew up all the RNA molecules that are responsible for making a particular protein, you could stop it from being expressed even though your cell is trying to make it.

而你就可以通过,降解其mRNA来进行干扰,再举个例子,如果你能把表达特定蛋白的RNA,统统揪出来捣毁的话,你也能阻止这段基因表达,哪怕是你的细胞在努力表达这段基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But today conservationists say it is degrading mangrove swamps and ravaging fish stocks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29