司法监管的标准已退化了。

Standards in the administration of justice have degenerated.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

龙王鲸无疑是一种完全海生的鲸鱼，它的后腿可能没有功能，或退化了。

Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind legs.

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他们的科技退化了。

Their technology regressed.

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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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