The Free Dictionary对“go to seed”的解释为：
To look shabby, unhealthy, or unattractive due to a lack of care or attention.
shabby作为形容词，有“破旧的；破败的；衣着破旧的；不公正的；不讲理的”等含义；
If someone goes to seed or runs to seed, they allow themselves to become fat, unhealthy and unattractive as they get older.
Once he had carried a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed.
他曾经有很多肌肉，但现在他已经开始摆烂了。
If a place goes to seed or runs to seed, it becomes dirty and untidy because people stop taking care of it.
The report pAInted a depressing picture of an America going to seed, its bridges and roads falling apart, its national parks neglected.
这份报告描绘了一幅令人沮丧的画面：美国状况糟糕，桥梁和道路四分五裂，国家公园被忽视。
摆烂，指事情已经无法向好的方向发展，于是就干脆不再采取措施加以控制而是任由其往坏的方向继续发展下去。你瞧瞧，“go to seed”不就是纯纯摆烂么？
举个例子：
After he retired, he really went to seed.
他退休后就开始摆烂了。
"Involution" has become a shorthand used by Chinese urbanites to describe the ills of their modern lives: Parents feel intense pressure to provide their children with the very best; children must keep up in the educational rat race; office workers have to clock in a grinding number of hours.
The idea of 'lying flat', or tang ping in Chinese, means taking a break from relentless work. The tang ping movement took off during 2021 as many felt they were coming under increasing pressure to work even harder and out perform their peers.
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雷达卡
提升卡
置顶卡
沉默卡
喧嚣卡
变色卡
千斤顶
照妖镜