vt.& vi.(使)腐烂,腐朽;
vi.衰败,衰退,衰落;
n.腐败、衰退的状态;
例句:
There are problems of urban decay and gang violence.
存在城市衰败和帮派暴力的问题。
Who lets so fair a house to decay.
谁肯让一座这样的华厦倾颓.
Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.
石头不易腐蚀,因而用石头制作的工具也得以保存,而那些制作工具的人们,甚至是他们的骨骼都已无处可寻。