Enfeeble
[ɪn'fiːb(ə)l;en-]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Weaken, unnerve, ENERVATE.
伊万杰琳校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ENERVATE]
霍华德編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make feeble: to weaken.—n. Enfee′blement weakening: weakness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The strength of the papacy lay in the faith men had in it, and it used that faith so carelessly as to enfeeble it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With my enfeebled health I do not know whether I shall ever be able to complete it, now that my assistant has been taken from me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I am now in my eighty-fourth year, and the last year has considerably enfeebled me, so that I hardly expect to remain another. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Meanwhile the barbarians swung down into the broken-up and enfeebled world of civilization from the west and from the east. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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