Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate.

不活动会使关节僵硬，骨骼因此可能会开始退化。

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In cervical facet osteoarthritis, this cartilage begins to degenerate, or break down.

在颈椎小关节骨关节炎，这些关节软骨开始退变破坏。

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Many aspects of the classic development process cause stakeholder relationships to degenerate into mutual distrust.

经典开发过程的很多方面造成了涉众关系退化到相互间的不信任。

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The genetic code is said to be degenerate because I can read in one direction.

遗传密码的这种性质称为简并性,我可以从一个方向去解读

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Remember we have to put one in each degenerate orbital before we double up on any orbital, so just keep that rule in mind that we would fill one in each p orbital before we a to the second one.

我们必须把,每一个放入简并的轨道,我们把每一个电子放在p轨道里，所以把规则记在脑子里,我们把每一个电子放在p轨道里,在我们放入第二个电子之前。

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So for Wellhausen, the Priestly source, which emphasizes cult and ritual logically it had to represent a late degenerate stage in the evolution of Israelite religion, because priestly ritualistic cultic practices, these are degenerations.

对于Wellhausen，牧师来源强调祭祀和仪式,它代表了一种晚期的退化阶段,在以色列宗教的进化进程，因为牧师仪式的宗教习俗都是一种退化。

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And I think it's still too early to tell whether things are going to degenerate that much.

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We have allowed English to degenerate so far that we must waste years on it, just like the Egyptians of 2000 BC.

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The new political settlement in Northern Ireland would not be allowed to degenerate into the crude ascendancy of the Protestant majority that prevailed before the Troubles.

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