Numb
[nʌm]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make numb or insensitive; 'The shock numbed her senses'.
(adj.) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; 'too numb with fear to move' .
錄入:特伦特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
(a.) Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
(v. t.) To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
校對:南森
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Torpid, benumbed.
希拉里校對
解釋/意思:
adj. deprived of sensation or motion: powerless to feel or act: stupefied: motionless: (Shak.) causing numbness.—v.t. to make numb: to deaden: to render motionless:—pr.p. numbing (num′ing); pa.p. numbed (numd).—adj. Numb′-cold (Shak.) numbed with cold: causing numbness.—n. Numb′ness state of being numb: condition of living body in which it has lost the power of feeling: torpor.
校對:琳达
例句/造句/用法:
- Her head felt dazed and numb. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nearly all were weeping but some were numb with what they had seen and the tears had dried in them. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He was coughing from the TNT fumes and he felt numb all through himself. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I'd far better be a walking than a getting numbed and dreary. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Oh, it is no trouble; I dare say your own hands are almost numbed with cold. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It ain't that you've been a-struggling, mother, but you've been stiff and numbed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Hitherto I had been acting, and action had numbed thought. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- His hands,' taking up one of them, which dropped like a leaden weight, 'get numbed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The pang passed, and nothing but the dull numbing pain of it remained. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Number Three, Four, Five, often. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
整理:梅纳德