enervate
英 ['en?ve?t]
美['?n?vet]
- vt. 使衰弱；使失去活力
- adj. 衰弱的；无力的
GRE畅通词汇
词态变化
第三人称单数:?enervates;过去式:?enervated;过去分词:?enervated;现在分词:?enervating;名词:?enervation;
中文词源
enervate 使衰弱
e-, 向外。-nerv, 神经，勇气，词源同nerve, nervous。
英文词源
- enervate (v.)
- c. 1600, "deprive of force or strength," from Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare "to weaken" (see enervation). Literal sense of "to weaken, impair" in English is from 1610s. Related: Ennervated; ennervating. As a verb Middle English had enerve (c. 1400, eneruyd).
双语例句
- 1. Soft living will enervate the leaders, and those under their command will be changed into beasts.
- 舒适的生命会弱化领导者, 在他们命令之下的会变成了兽.
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