become vestigial

基本解释

• 退化

英汉例句

双语例句

• The wings of the chicken have become vestigial; it can no longer fly.
  鸡的翅膀逐渐退化， 不会在空中飞行了。
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• Lula has announced that Eletrobrás, a state-controlled electricity company once seen as almost vestigial, should be expanded to become a “Petrobras of the electricity sector”.
  卢拉已宣布要将曾经几乎衰退的国有电力公司Eletrobrás扩张为“电力部门的Petrobras”。

权威例句

• Now that we have a national primary process to select our presidential candidates, the conventions have become vestigial remains of a prior time when candidates were actually selected at them.
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• Rome had, by that time, torn down even the vestigial organs associated with the Republic and had become a full-blooded dictatorial empire.
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