1·Certain irrigation practices degrade soil quality and reduce agricultural productivity.
某些灌溉措施会降低土壤质量，降低农业生产力。
2·This will degrade performance.
这样将降低性能。
3·Sugar can increase energy, but in very small amounts, sugar can tell your brain to degrade the performance of orexin.
糖分可以增加能量，但如果是很小剂量的糖分则会促使你的大脑降低食欲素的功能。
4·The performance team should benchmark each release and ensure that the performance of critical areas does not degrade from one release to the next.
性能团队应该对比每一个版本，以确保重要区域的性能在下一个版本中不会降低。
5·This will help to avoid the chance for resource contention that can severely degrade performance, or lead to a record dead lock condition.
这将有助于避免出现资源争用，资源争用可能会严重降低性能，或者会导致出现记录死锁情况。