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

• What do the middleaged women need in order to maintain their youth and doomed decrepitude?
  什么是中年妇女的需要，以维持其青年和注定衰老？
• 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。
• 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。
• Its 'activity decreased and tended to decrepitude.
  其活力明显下降，趋于衰老；
• A natural regulation that the mankind can't resist is a decrepitude," old have to keep "is basic request of the each social member.
  人类不可抗拒的一个自然规律就是衰老，老有所养是每个社会成员的基本要求。
• From the above data, tea have the power to improve immunity and to resist decrepitude.
  由此可以看出，茶叶能够起到提高免疫力，抗衰老的功效。
• Furthermore, they just show the result of gather and can't have a condition of skin's decrepitude, which is no directive sense to prevention and cure for skin's decrepitude, just provide some reference as assistant.
  而且，它们往往只是给出采集的数据结果，不能根据结果得到相应皮肤衰老的状况和治疗措施，对皮肤衰老的防治没有什么实际的指导意义，只能作为辅助设备提供一些参考。
• 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。
• All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.
  她们四个仿佛是在人生晚年的枯竭、凋残、衰颓、愁惨这四只角上，各占一角。
• As he grew older, he realized that he was beginning to slide into physical, decrepitude.
  随着年事渐高，他意识到身体已开始慢慢地衰朽下去。