Attenuate
[ə'tenjʊeɪt] or [ə'tɛnjuet]
解释:
(verb.) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude.
(adj.) reduced in strength; 'the faded tones of an old recording' .
古斯塔夫校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
(v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
(v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
(v. i.) To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
(a.) Alt. of Attenuated
芭比整理
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Dilute, thin, rarefy, make thin, make less dense.[2]. Lessen, diminish, contract, reduce.
厄玛编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Educe, elongate, reduce, fine-drawn, narrow, contract, diminish, compress
ANT:Broaden, increase, expand, dilate, swell, enlarge, develop, amplify
加德纳整理
解释:
v.t. to make thin or lean: to break down into finer parts: to reduce in density: reduce in strength or value simplify.—v.i. to become thin or fine: to grow less.—n. Atten′uant anything possessing this property.—adjs. Atten′uate Atten′uated made thin or slender: dilute rarefied:—n. Attenuā′tion process of making slender: reduction of intensity density or force: specially in homeopathy the reduction of the active principles of medicines to minute doses.
达米安校对
例句:
- He pictured to himself a youth, whose eyes sparkled with genius, whose person was attenuated by famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Hens that had not had chicken cholera could be rendered immune by a series of attenuated inoculations gradually increasing in strength. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The inoculations of th e attenuated virus began at once. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- As I turned from the door, I saw Merrival, or rather the shadow of Merrival, attenuated and wild, pass me, and sit on the steps of his home. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- If she had had a little more self-control she would have attenuated the emotion to nothing by sheer reasoning, and so have killed it off. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
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