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词根:enervate
adj.enervate 衰弱的;无力的
enervated 衰弱的,无力的
enervating 使人衰弱的;令人萎靡不振的
v.enervated 使衰弱(enervate的过去分词)
enervating 使…丧失力量;使…衰弱(enervate的ing形式)
vt.enervate 使衰弱;使失去活力
adjective
lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated
verb
transitive verb
to reduce the mental or moral vigor of
to lessen the vitality or strength of
15世纪早期, enervacion,“损害,侵犯”,源自晚期拉丁语 enervationem(主格 enervatio),是拉丁语 enervare “削弱”的动作名词,字面意思是“割断筋腱”,由 ex “出”(见 ex-)和 nervus “筋腱”(见 nerve(n.))组成。比喻意义始于1550年代。
神经无力
神经切除
Verb Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare, from e- + nervus sinew — more at nerve
The first known use of enervate was in 1603
enfeebleverb
to make feeble
enfeebleverb
to make feeble
enervateverb
to cause to decline in strength or vigor : weaken
1 Even illness, with its resulting weakness and enervation, forced nothing from her.
2 Russia could not compete against America in all places of the world because of the enervation of the economical strength.
前苏联的继承者俄罗斯由于经济实力的衰弱,不能像以前一样在世界各地与美国展开竞争。
3 It seems to be so compounded of wholesome things that it reaches, with vitalizing effect, every point of mental or physical enervation.
4 Yet in this production, there is always energy in seeming enervation.
5 The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic.
你不断的提出问题,会产生沮丧或快乐,愤慨或鼓舞,痛苦或梦幻的感觉。
6 a lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul
7 There was therefore not only a denaturation, but an enervation of our poetry.
8 It would take longer to tell what was not in it, than what was; no sofas, no cushions, no curtains, no carpets, no easy rocking chairs inviting to enervation or rest or repose.
9 The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world.
10 Although his attitude was apparently tranquil, listless even, inwardly he was in a state of fury, a condition of feverish enervation.
11 Then again, enervating her supporters has been Madonna’s M.O. in recent years.
12 This relationship, when successful, tends to enervate mediating institutions that thwart the immediate desires of both the populist leader and the public.
13 I love my children with my whole body, but they are enervation machines.
14 The exaggerated frequency of such acts produces a reaction, and often a slight sensation of enervation, that should never be born of caresses.
15 A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation.
16 My fiction - I'd lecture them - is about the exhilaration of ideas, rather than the enervation provoked by these initially seductive - but ultimately nonsensical - simulacra of people.
17 To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate.
18 The enervation of a life of ease began soon to show itself, and he felt the power of a certain station.
19 In the enervation that had crept over him he would have stroked the black tresses which streamed across the pillow, only he lacked the strength to extricate his hands from hers.
20 Jack’s enervating recovery in The Way Back is full of drab, predictable pathos instead of the stylized drama in Dawn of Justice.
1 衰弱
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2 无力
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