Disuse
[dɪs'juːs] or [dɪs'jus]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
(v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
(n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Desuetude, discontinuance, non-observance.
乔安娜錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
[See USE_and_DESUETUDE]
手打:凯西
解釋/意思:
n. cessation or giving up of use or custom.—v.t. (dis-ūz′) to cease to use or practise.—n. Disusage (dis-ūz′-) gradual cessation of use or custom.
手打:奥齐
例句/造句/用法:
- But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They have been so long in disuse in England, that at present I know no English name for them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Abuse and disuse characterize the older view of the state: guardian and censor it has been, provider but grudgingly. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The latter went into disuse many years ago. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Some, perhaps a great, effect may be attributed to the increased use or disuse of parts. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It is true that the Gauls made use of an instrument nearly two thousand years before, but this contrivance fell into disuse with the decline of the Gallic fields. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thus the young will not be modified, or will be modified only in a slight degree, through the effects of the increased use or disuse of parts. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But we learn from the study of our domestic productions that the disuse of parts leads to their reduced size; and that the result is inherited. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In many cases habit or use and disuse have probably come into play. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It appears probable that disuse has been the main agent in rendering organs rudimentary. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In some cases we might easily put down to disuse modifications of structure which are wholly, or mainly due to natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Treadles were subsequently applied, but after a time the machine fell into disuse and was apparently forgotten. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is scarcely possible that disuse can go on producing any further effect after the organ has once been rendered functionless. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
校對:朱莉娅