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de·gree /dɪˈɡriː/ n. | phr.
n.
1. 度，度数
Water freezes at 0 degrees centigrade. 水在零摄氏度 (写作0°C) 结冰。
an angle of 60 degrees 60度 (写作60°) 角
That changes your situation by a hundred and eighty degrees. 那件事使你的处境发生180°的转变。
2. 程度
It is viewed with a high degree of suspicion in the Third World. 第三世界高度怀疑地看待这件事。
His doctor did not know to what degree his pulmonary disease was reversible. 他的医生不知道他的肺病在多大程度上还能治愈。
His tone was a degree less bantering now. 他的语气现在稍稍变得不那么嘲弄人了。
3. (组织损伤的)深度
burns of the third degree 三度烧伤
4. (等级中的)级；(发展过程的)阶段
He has advanced only one degree in promotion. 他只提升了一级。
5. 地位；身份
a lady of high degree 有身份的女士
people of low degree 下层民众
6. 学位，学衔
a degree course 学位课程
doctors with German, French and English degrees 分别在德国、法国和英国获得博士学位的人们
He holds (或 has) a master's degree in education. 他有教育学硕士学位。
do a degree at the university 在大学攻读学位
take (或 earn, get, receive) one's degree 获得学位
7. 〈美〉【律】(罪行的)轻重程度；(定罪、量刑的)等级
robbery in the first degree 一级抢劫罪
8. 【语】(形容词、副词的)级
degrees of comparison 比较等级
the positive (comparative, superlative) degree 原 (比较，最高) 级
9. 【数】次，次数
X³and 2 X²Y are terms of degree three. X³和2X²Y 均为三次项。
10. 方式；方面
Each contributed to victory in his degree. 每人以自己的方式为获取胜利作出贡献。
11. 〈古〉(会社等组织成员的)等级；授级仪式
12. 亲等
a cousin in the first degree 嫡堂 (或嫡表) 兄 (或弟、姐、妹)
13. 【音】音级；(谱上的)线；间
14. 〈废〉(一)梯级；(一)排；(一)层
[<OFr degré < DE-+ L gradus step, grade] phr. by degrees 逐渐地，渐渐地 By degrees the little girl lost her shyness. 那个小女孩渐渐地克服了羞怯。in the last degree = to the last degree
to a degree1. 〈英口〉非常，极其
His suitings are natty to a degree. 他的衣料极其漂亮。
2. 有点，稍微
I suppose that each one of us is, to a degree, a prisoner of our experience. 我想我们每个人在一定程度上都受着个人经历的禁锢。
to the last degree 极度地
He was terrified to the last degree. 他惊吓到了极点。
to the nth degree 极度地；极端地 |