enfeebled

英 [ɪnˈfiːbld]

美 [ɪnˈfiːbld]

adj.  变得衰弱的; 羸弱的
v.  使衰弱; 使虚弱; 使无力
enfeeble的过去分词和过去式

过去式：enfeebled　

BNC.34918 / COCA.36950

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 变得衰弱的;羸弱的
  If someone or something isenfeebled, they have become very weak.
  1. He finds himself politically enfeebled.
     他发现自己的政治势力变得衰弱。
  2. ...the already enfeebled newspaper.
     那家已经式微的报纸

双语例句

• In Coetzee's Foe, the female and the black both struggles to maintain their discourse power in some way while that of the white male is enfeebled to some extent.
  在《仇敌》中，女性和黑人都试图以某种形式捍卫自己的话语权力，而白人男性的话语霸权则受到了相当程度的颠覆。
• Elsewhere a crowd of bees, squeezing one another, is falling upon some victim, beating and crushing it; and the killed or enfeebled bee drops slowly, light as a feather, on to the heap of corpses.
  在第三处，一群蜜蜂互相挤压，向一个牺牲品进攻，打它，挤它，那只垂危或已死亡的蜜蜂像茸毛一样，从上面掉到蜜蜂尸体堆中去。
• On the contrary, it will be up to an enfeebled European Commission to try to hold the line.
  相反，人们还要依靠遭到削弱的欧盟委员会来努力维持当前局势。
• That enabled it to use its financial resources to steal a march on enfeebled rivals a trend that has angered competitors, who accuse the bank of unusually aggressive tactics such as pulling credit lines and asking for collateral at the height of the crisis.
  这使得该银行能够动用其金融资源抢占先机，偷袭遭受重创的竞争对手这种做法激怒了竞争对手。他们指责摩根大通在危机最严峻时刻，采取取消信贷额度、要求提供抵押品等咄咄逼人的不寻常手段。
• Still, the idea that Europe has become so enfeebled that foreigners can buy it up at will strikes a chord.
  欧洲已变得如此衰弱以至于外国人可以随心所欲的在欧洲收购，这才是触动心弦的。
• The aim ostensibly is to protect Iraqi airspace and revive its enfeebled air force.
  此举的目的表面上是为了保护伊拉克领空，重振衰弱的空军。
• American life has enfeebled his mind.
  美国的生活削弱了他的意志。
• She is old. Her hands are now too enfeebled to even needlework or cooking. When she walks, she has to over along with a groping hand on the wall for support.
  妈妈老了，她的手已经拿不住针线，也不能做饭了，甚至走路时也要手扶墙壁。
• The beginning of20th century witnessed an impoverished and enfeebled China that slumbered in dim prospects.
  20世纪初的中国，是一个贫穷落后前途一片暗淡的景象！
• They inherited an enfeebled economy, suffocating from enormous wage settlements.
  他们继承了脆弱的经济机构，深受巨额工资欠账的拖累。