Impair
[ɪm'peə] or [ɪm'pɛr]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
(v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
(a.) Not fit or appropriate.
(n.) Diminution; injury.
手打:西格蒙德
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Deteriorate, injure, vitiate, make worse.[2]. Lessen, diminish, decrease, make less.[3]. Weaken, enfeeble, enervate.
校對:菲利斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Deteriorate, injure, reduce, damage, enfeeble, vitiate, diminish, lessen
ANT:Enhance, improve, augment, repair
乔纳森手打
解釋/意思:
adj. (Shak.) unsuitable.
v.t. to diminish in quantity value or strength: to injure: to weaken.—v.i. (obs.) to become worse.—n. Impair′ment.
編輯:梅齐
例句/造句/用法:
- Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Bending to a certain extent does not weaken wood, but stretching the same has been found to impair and destroy its strength. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- On the other hand, not to pull it tight enough will leave the cloth loose, which is not only unsightly, but will impair the rubber and destroy the accuracy of the balls rebounding from it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I do not know that my mental faculties are impaired. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But although the bodily powers of the great man were thus impaired, his mental energies retained their pristine vigour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Furthermore, there are sure to be times when the service will be interrupted and seriously impaired if such plans for the future are not made and consistently carried out. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The sense of the awfulness of riches that could never be impaired flooded her mind like a swoon, a death in most marvellous possession, mystic-sure. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- As if his memory were impaired, or his faculties disordered, the prisoner made an effort to rally his attention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The seasons during which the ability of private people to accumulate was somewhat impaired, would occur more rarely, and be of shorter continuance. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- My digestion is much impaired, and I am but a poor knife and fork at any time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But all natural fabrics, whether they come from plants, like cotton and linen, or from animals, like wool and silk, contain more or less coloring matter, which impairs the whiteness. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- And this quality in language impairs the force of an argument which has many steps. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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