As a noun degenerate can refer to a corrupt person. Deteriorate is not used in this way. Otherwise they are both very similar in that they both mean a decline from a once better state. Or an ongoing/continued decline depending.

For example, one of our group members said she never heard her father say he misses her. But there was a time when her father got drunk and told her in a video call: “I miss you.” She was surprised and touched. Maybe only when he is not limited by his awkward character, is he able to directly express his true feelings. Despite his stubbornness, he tries his best to accept my ideas that he even doesn't understand.

Part1：This is the way he loves us Good afternoon, everyone. Now I'd like to describe the tendencies of a person and you guess who he is. 1. He would never be the first one to make a phone call. Even when we have phone call, it is very short. His WeChat responses are usually “Um” or “Oh”. It seems like it may kill him if he says one more word. 2. His snores sound like thunder and he get's very angry if anyone wakes him up. 3.He always says he is busy, sounds like he is lying 4．He seems to have no emotion. He never says “very good” to you openly, and never says “I love you.” 5．He's very stubborn and won't accept other people's ideas. So, do you know who he is? That makes you think of your father, right? The answer is our father. It’s very interesting. Our group shared stories about our fathers, and we found that our fathers share these common tendencies. And I can see your fathers are the same too, from your reaction. These features I mentioned above are annoying! Right? But in the discussion, we realized that perhaps this is the way our fathers love us. Though he is like a machine that can only say “Um” or “Oh”, his words were expressed in this way…If he is a machine, he would be an ATM. Though he has a lot of bad habits, like his thunderous snores, he tries his best to overcome them for us. Yang Jinmiao has a story about this： the days before her college entrance exam，in order to not let the snores bother his daughter, the father stayed up late every night, waiting until she fell asleep. Though he always says “I am busy”, which sounds like a lie, one thing is true——he tries to take care of us. Liu Chunhao also mentioned a story that happened before the college entrance exam. Every day during that time, His father kept bringing him lunch on a very short break from work, hoping that the son could have a better meal. After that, the father hurried back to work. Although he never said “I missed you”, he probably has said it many times in his mind.

"How much" is a helpful phrase in english an can be applied in a few ways. Common Question: How much is this pair of shoes? Common answer: They are 50.00 dollars plus tax. Common Question: How much have you eaten today? Common answer: All I had was a bowl of soup. Common question: How much television do you usually watch? Common answer: Not much, I only check the news sometimes. So "how much" has a lot of uses and you may see it often in different forms of context.