| 词汇 | weakened |
| 释义 | weakened past simple and past participle ofweaken weaken verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈwiː.kən/ us /ˈwiː.kən/ C1 to (cause to) become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective: （使）虚弱；削弱；（使）衰弱 You could see the poor dog weakening daily as the disease spread through its body.随着这种疾病在这条可怜的狗身上扩散，你能看到它在一天天衰弱下去。 The bill would seriously weaken environmental protections.这项法案将严重削弱对环境的保护。 We know that prolonged exposure to vibration can weaken aircraft components.我们知道，长时间处在震动状态下会降低飞机零件的强度。 She's weakening - ask her some more questions and see if she confesses.她快挺不住了——再问她些问题看她会不会坦白。 In his journal, Captain Scott recorded that he and his companions were weakened by lack of food.在日志中，斯科特船长写道，因缺少食物他和同伴们身体虚弱不堪。 Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre? The latest setbacks have not weakened the government's resolve. The fire weakened the central tower, which eventually collapsed. This evidence weakens the case for the prosecution. Becoming and making less strong abate abatement adulterant adulterate adulterated be fading away/fastidiom downtoner dull ease emasculation enervate enervating hedge melt relieve tone something down totter tottering turn to jellyidiom undimmed Examples of weakenedweakened In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened. The body had its "defensive forces" (wei qi) to guard its frontiers; those forces were bound to fail, though, when weakened by corruption from within. The strong defiance incentives probably weakened somewhat from the mid 1980s, when the state grants became more generous. The conjugal bond has strengthened, and has weakened the traditionally strong bonds with siblings, parents and other relatives of the extended family. Either that control had weakened by the eighteenth century, or the model of ' social control ' at either period is suspect. The increased stiffness of connective tissue confers protective strength on weakened muscles but the loss of elastic recoil decreases the efficiency of gait. From an administrative perspective, the planning capacity and the strong links between a given regional population and the chosen level of public service are weakened. One phonological change which severely weakened the distinction between these classes was the neutralization of unstressed vowels. Once independence was achieved, the unions were left weak, and were further weakened when a number of key officials were lured into government. Both had recently seen their unions seriously weakened by severe repression. The incentive to put forward underfinanced proposals is weakened compared to a system where entitlement appropriations are open-ended. Such concentrated opponents should tend to be weakened by crisis. This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures. Huge capital costs, the limited availability of supplies, contested markets and price controls all weakened the market's ability to function effectively. The tribes, weakened by their deteriorating economic circumstances, needed the state's assistance and became more amenable to its patronage. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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