Invalid
[ɪn'vælɪd]
解释:
(noun.) someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.
(verb.) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen.
(adj.) no longer valid; 'the license is invalid' .
(adj.) having no cogency or legal force; 'invalid reasoning'; 'an invalid driver's license' .
吉塞尔编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
(a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
(a.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
(n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.
(v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm.
(v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.
编辑:露西尔
同义词及近义词：
(in-val´id) a. [1]. Weak, of no weight, of no force.[2]. (Law.) Void, null, of no legal force, null and void.
(in´va-lid) a. Weak, feeble, infirm, sick, sickly, weakly, frail, valetudinary.
(in´val-id) a. Valetudinarian, feeble person, infirm person, sick person.
埃弗雷特编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:infirm, sick, weakly, frail, feeble
ANT:Strong, vigorous, healthy, well
整理:米歇尔
解释:
adj. without value weight or cogency: having no effect: void: null.—adj. In′valid deficient in health sick weak.—n. one who is weak: a sickly person: one disabled for active service esp. a soldier or sailor.—v.t. to make invalid or affect with disease: to enrol on the list of invalids.—v.t. Inval′idāte to render invalid: to weaken or destroy the force of.—ns. Invalidā′tion; In′validhood In′validism; In′validing the return home or to a more healthy climate of soldiers or sailors who have been rendered incapable of active duty by wounds or the severity of foreign service; Invalid′ity Inval′idness want of cogency: want of force.
录入:雷内
娱乐性解释：
To dream of invalids, is a sign of displeasing companions interfering with your interest. To think you are one, portends you are threatened with displeasing circumstances.
贾维斯整理
例句:
- The child in speaking gave to his motion the jerk and limp of an invalid. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Everybody is ill now, I think,' said Mrs. Hale, with a little of the jealousy which one invalid is apt to feel of another. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- The Vicar, after a glass of port, was obliged to hurry away to a meeting, and the shy nephew, who appeared to be an invalid, was packed off to bed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The Holy Roman Empire struggled on indeed to the days of Napoleon, but as an invalid and dying thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I need hardly say, that if there is any little thing that could serve Mrs. Hale as an invalid, you will offer it, I'm sure. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- We expressed our acknowledgments and sat down behind the door, where there was a lame invalid of a sofa. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Marianne had been two or three days at home, before the weather was fine enough for an invalid like herself to venture out. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- From that day forwards Mrs. Hale became more and more of a suffering invalid. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He is an ass, and I am an invalid, and we are likely to make all sorts of mistakes between us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had been, or had fancied himself to be, an invalid for years past, and he was not well enough to receive me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Osborne said to his friend's remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands of Doctor Gollop. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Those languishing years would follow of which none but the invalid and her immediate friends feel the heart-sickness and know the burden. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But her father set too high a standard, and too abstract a view, before the indolent invalid. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Then the two invalids were ordered to repose, which they did, by both sitting in one big chair and talking hard. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Such cases are very common, he said, with invalids of this sort. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- But I have never been ill myself, so I am not much up to invalids' fancies. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- But Sir Percival and his lordship declared that they were both willing to put up with inconvenience for the sake of the invalids. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We invalids think we are privileged people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, Oh, do somebody go down quick! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The invalids improved rapidly, and Mr. March began to talk of returning early in the new year. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
整理:莱昂内尔